Silence

 

But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him. Habakkuk 2:20

When was the last time you experienced total silence? I mean real, dead-still silence.

Let me define it for you. Silence, as best I understand the biblical word, means the absence of manmade or human sounds. No music, no words, no television, no phones, no lawn mowers, no hum of air conditioners, no cars or planes or trains or sirens in the background. Nothing that reminds you of humans.

Silence is not the absence of natural sounds, the sounds of nature—like birds or ocean waves or wind or rain or thunder. Those sounds remind us of God.

So let me ask again, when was the last time you experience total silence?

It’s hard to find silence these days. You have to really try to get it. Finding silence requires you to turn off, hand off and get away from everything in your world that makes noise.

It’s important, maybe even urgent that you do.

Here’s why: God is there. God is in the silence. He speaks there. He moves there. He reveals there.

Many of us think God doesn’t speak to us. That’s not true. He’s speaking; we just can’t hear him. We need silence.

Because with God, we hear and see him best when nothing else is competing. We hear him best in stillness and silence.

Maybe that’s why he said, Be still and know that I am God (Ps 46:10).

The Lord is in his holy sanctuary. Be silent . . . . .

Father, we long to hear you. Teach us to pursue silence so that we can. In Jesus’ name . . . .

 

 

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