The Burning Question:
What prayer has God answered for you recently?
Morning Devotional:
Being a single person who lives alone, I’m used to silence.
Sitting in my house alone last night, I started thinking about silence and how we perceive it. Have you ever thought about what silence really is? I think it can be perceived a few different ways.
For some who may be used to a busy household and a full complement of mouths to feed, the gift of silence might be perceived as the absence of talking and crying and yelling and running – the penultimate achievement of “peace and quiet.”
For others, the goal of finding silence may mean the race to get away from the noise pollution of city life and escaping to the tranquility of nature. There, silence means resting in the waft of whatever might be carried in by the next cool breeze.
Me? Last night’s inventory of silence included the crickets outside my window, the whirring of my refrigerator’s motor, my dog snoring, a very faint hum of highway traffic and, after a long time of waiting, a message from the Lord to minister to a moment of inner uncertainty.
Getting silent and still before the Lord can be a challenge but when we finally reach that place of refuge, we will hear a symphony of wisdom and encouragement from God to sustain us. This is a lesson King David knew and practiced very well, and modeled for us in Psalm 62:
My soul waits in silence for God alone; From Him comes my salvation.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I will not be greatly shaken. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Don’t shy away from silence. In fact, do the opposite – seek it out, because it is there you will find the Lord often speaks the loudest.
– Beth
Bible Quiz:
Question: Who was first referred to as a hunter?
Answer: Nimrod (Genesis 10:9)
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