The Sound of Silence #RTTBROS #Nightlight
"Be still, and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10
You know, I read something recently that stopped me cold. In 2011, a Finnish tourism board was trying to attract visitors to their country. After all the research and focus groups, you know what they landed on? Their slogan was simply this: "Silence, please." They ran ads showing vast, empty forests and frozen lakes, and the tagline read, "We have it. The world needs it."
The campaign worked. Because deep down, every one of us knows that's true. The world is drowning in noise, and somewhere in our souls, we are starving for quiet.
Elijah the prophet knew something about that. You remember the story in 1 Kings 19. This man had just called down fire from heaven on Mount Carmel, and the very next day he was sitting under a juniper tree telling God he was done. Just done. God fed him, let him sleep, and then told him to go stand on the mountain. And what happened next I've turned over in my mind for years. There came a great wind, an earthquake, and a fire. And God was not in any of them. After the fire came, "a still small voice." That's where God was. In the quiet.
God is still working that way. He is most clearly heard in the stillness. But Elijah had to stop running to hear it. He had to stand still and let the noise pass by first.
Most of us never get there. We fill every quiet moment with our phones, our music, our own anxious thoughts. And God has been trying to get a word in edgewise for a long time.
When is the last time you got genuinely quiet before God? Too soon old and too late smart, friend. I know that one from personal experience.
Let's pray: Father, forgive us for filling our lives with so much noise that we can hardly hear Your voice. Teach us the holy discipline of silence, and help us be still long enough to know that You are God. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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