Silence

Silence speaks

Uneasy silence

Breaking the silence

Silence is a scary sound

Silence implies consent

A moment of silence

Prolonged silence

Above are a few phrases we are all familiar with. Silence is something that most of us are uncomfortable with and/or unfamiliar with. Do you ever just ride in the car or sit at home without the radio/CD/TV turned on enjoying the silence or is silence a signal of the storm to come. If you have ever been in a tornado you know the eerie silence that precedes the storm, it is a silence of foreboding.

I have spent the day thinking about silence. It all started when a friend of mine forwarded me a text; “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” 1 John 5:14. My reply to that text was, “believing that He hears is the easy part, what do you do when He is silent?”

Are you mourning before God because you have not had an audible response? God will give you the blessings you ask if you will not go any further without them; but His silence is the sign that He is bringing you into a marvelous understanding of Himself. You will find that God has trusted you in the most intimate way possible. Has God trusted you with a silence - a silence that is big with meaning? God's silences are His answers.