{"id":41254,"date":"2026-08-14T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41254"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:57:46","slug":"26-0815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0815\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Out of the Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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God sent Elijah into the rocky, raw, and lonely land of the Kerith Ravine. He had no temple for worship, no faith fraternity for strength. It would be years before he enjoyed fellowship with faithful Jews. Preparation by separation. Purposeful silence and solitude are basic courses in Unbreakable Courage 101.<\/p>\n

Jesus found his Kerith in the obscure days of Nazareth and the quiet days in the wilderness. In order to gather strength for the cross, he sought time alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. If Jesus needed Kerith-like solitude, how much more do we? God\u2019s invitation is compelling. From Psalm 46:10 (MSG): \u201cStep out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me\u2026\u201d When did you last \u201cstep out of the traffic\u201d to be alone with your Father?<\/p>\n

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God sent Elijah into the rocky, raw, and lonely land of the Kerith Ravine. He had no temple for worship, no faith fraternity for strength. It would be years before he enjoyed fellowship with faithful Jews. Preparation by separation. Purposeful silence and solitude are basic courses in Unbreakable Courage 101.<\/p>\n

Jesus found his Kerith in the obscure days of Nazareth and the quiet days in the wilderness. In order to gather strength for the cross, he sought time alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. If Jesus needed Kerith-like solitude, how much more do we? God\u2019s invitation is compelling. From Psalm 46:10 (MSG): \u201cStep out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me\u2026\u201d When did you last \u201cstep out of the traffic\u201d to be alone with your Father?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41257,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41254\/revisions\/41257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}