SILENCE

Silence

 

Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. (Zech 2:13)

Silence: A rather unfamiliar experience in today’s world.

* Not much practiced.

* Not much allowed in our cacophony (harsh or discordant sound) of shrill voices, trite opinions, endless information, and the blaring of brassy music and mind-numbing media dissipation.

To be alone before God in SILENCE is either

* Frightening Or Healing

Depending upon the condition of our soul.

“There will be silence before Thee… “

When, we appear in that day before The Consuming Presence, the righteous Lamb, slain, resurrected, and now reigning…

There will be SILENCE before Him…

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.  (Rev 8:1)

For some the silence will turn to worship, adulation, fullness of joy and eternal bliss.

For the rest it will mean weeping and gnashing of teeth: Eternal separation from all that is good, righteous and pure.

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  (Matt 8:12)

Amidst the clamor and cluttering noise of our day, it behooves us to learn to live in the presence of God in SILENCE.

For it is here and only here that He will be known.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.  (Psalms 46:10)