The Sound of Silence

I love to watch and listen to the news. I love to listen to sermons and worship music. I love the sound of information. I love it. In our cluture there are so many sounds and different modes of information coming at us all day long and for the most part, I love it. However, there is one sound that I believe we need more of, in order to hear God's voice and to know who we are and that sound is silence.

I grew up the youngest of three children and my sisters' were 6 years older than myself. I ended up spending much of my time as a child alone, sometimes by my choice, sometimes by others. I think long regular periods of uninterupted thought, with not much outside noise, helped me to develop a strong inner sense of what my thoughts sound like and what God's voice sounds like in contrast to the world's voice. In my adult life, I love to be with people but feel a sense of inner order and awe of God when I am in silence that is like no other place in life.

In the Psalms, in chapter 4 and 39 there are passages that talk about us being silent and taking account of our own words and hearts. What is our condition. How are we living life. Verse 4 says in chapter 39,

"Lord, help me to know my end and to appreciate the measure of my days - what it is; let me know and realize how frail I am (how transient is my stay here)."

I think silence is necessary to live our lives to have proper perspective on ourselves and what God is saying to us. To remember that we are human and weak and in need of Him and to remember that He is.....all that He is....everything.

Psalm 37:7 Be still and rest in the Lord, wait for Him and patiently lean yourself on Him.......