Today, I began my spiritual year . . . in silence . . . LISTENING.
This is no easy task, but it is amazing how much silence has to teach us. My addiction to noise is not uncommon. The world is filled with noise and noise can be a destructive influence on one's spiritual life. I believe the souls of our children and the spirit of our lives is drowning in noise.
I encourage you to spend one silent hour before God, listening. Do not pray, do not sing, do not act, just sit quietly in silence in God's presence and you will see important things that lay buried beneath the world of sounds, like boulders lay hidden beneath ocean waves.
Do this - pull the plug on all your clamorous activities and noise-making machines for just one hour. Find a place to sit in utter silence before God's throne. When you are done, write down your thoughts and impressions. They may not be pleasant, but that is the purpose of silence, to reveal to us what remains concealed by noise. Silence will teach us much, if we dare to engage it.
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Selah.
Yes, I am addicted to noise, as well. And more specifically, entertainment.
There was a long weekend last year that found me without wife or computer. I remember sitting on the couch the whole first night absolutely uninspired with the silence, desperately longing for the internet and something to give me something.
It was awful. And it was so necessary.
I was able to see the extent to which I would rather be entertained than pause and entertain God. And the irony is how much more fulfilling it is to hear from God and be led by him to anywhere!
I was also able to see that in order to deal with the noise, an act of war was necessary. I had to kill a certain thing within me. Crucify it, in fact. Choose against entertainment as a lover and run back to God.
And I am so much better for it.
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