During my lunch break today I rushed across town to pick up my wife as she got off work. I left early so she wouldn't have to wait. As I was pulled up to the stop sign at the end of the parking lot a man came up to the passenger window and poked his head in. "Are you headed into town?" he asked. I nodded my head and he jumped in. For a few minutes we talked about where I was going and where he wanted to go. I had extra time so I agreed to take him home. Then we both sat there, as strangers. I thought about turning on the music or asking a question but instead kept on driving.
There is something there, in the silence, that most people find unsettling. That's why some people leave the TV on when they go to bed. I have a cell phone, a CD player, MP3 player, and radio to combat the stillness in the air.
I Kings 19:11-12 says: The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
Maybe there's a connection between the amount of noise in my life and my inability to hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to me, maybe it's not because He's not talking to me, but simply because I'm not really listening.
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Tired of telling you, you have me
When I know you really don't
Tired of telling you I'll follow
When I know I really won't
Cause I'd rather stand here speechless
With no great words to say
If my silence is more truthful
And my ears can hear how to walk in your way
In the silence
You are speaking
In the quiet I can feel the fire
And it's burning, burning deeply
Burning all that it is that you desire to be silent, in me
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