TO YOU BELONGS SILENCE

“To You belongs silence...and praise is due and fitting to You, O God, in Zion...” Psalm 65:1 Amplified Version

I love it in the pre-dawn hours when Papa nudges me in the still darkness, waking me early and a hushed, reverent silence blankets the room where I am! Before the alarm goes off, before the dog starts barking or the blow dryer begins to whirr...there is a place of holy silence...God is there. And as the drowsiness that had just consumed me begins to lightly fade; He calls to me and bids me to come! My heart leaps with joy for the quiet privilege and the holy promise of sitting in silence at His feet. Before the sun begins its promise filled ascent, God is here...to Him belongs the silence!

Oh how desperately we need the times of holy silence; where we are swathed in the arms of the One who died for us, where in the soft quietness our hearts can hear the still small voice of God whispering words of love. Oh the murmured affirmation that settles upon us before the continual motion of our daily lives begin! It is a place of rest...a place of serenity...a place of respite from the continual demands that life in general and this day in particular will heap upon us.

Yes, silence is not only a necessity in this life, it is also truly a place of power...for in the early silence before the cares of this day have settled firmly on our shoulders, we find a place of recharging and restoration...a place where He is mine and I am His alone.

In a time when lives are filled with perpetual motion and where a pervasive and continual noise batters our inner being, we are desperate to fully experience the quiet presence of our precious Lord; for only there is the place of sanctuary...a safe haven that insulates us from whole depletion...a place of filling...a place of release; where the busyness that assaults our daily schedules is enveloped in a place of renewal.

Praise God that we can present ourselves into this holy place any time of the day or night...any moment when we turn our hearts fully on Him He is there with us, bringing peace, clarity and whole satisfaction. In those “silent” moments He speaks to us of a steadfast hope, an enduring rest and of a love confirmed.

Everything is possible when I am immersed in His glorious presence...there I am cleansed and I find that in that place of regeneration blame falls away, shame is eliminated and anticipation for the future springs up in its place...in His presence I am able to forgive all and there I can believe for all things...for He is with me-so my faith soars and my hope is renewed!

Oh that we would hear the declaration of our Father calling us to draw near! He cries out today “Child, I am the eternal God who is your continual refuge and underneath the foundation of all that you know, of everything you believe and the sum of your experiences; you are safe and renewed as My everlasting arms hold you!” Deuteronomy 33:27 Paraphrased

Does your heart long for a place of quiet rekindling today? It doesn’t have to be a pre-dawn moment...always His loving heart is ready to meet with you and ever He stands ready to bring a quiet place of rest wherever you find yourself at this very moment. Oh that today you would hear the melodious voice of your Savior who whispers to your weary hearts “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Matthew 11:29

Let’s pray.

We come to You Lord Jesus and we present ourselves...we come with all the dust of this weary filled life clinging to us and we humbly ask that You would come and cleanse us from the perpetual motion of life, that in You our souls would find renewed purpose and replenishment...that in Your embrace we would experience a refuge that nothing of ourselves and nothing of this world could ever touch. Come Holy One and be for us that haven of safety that insulates us from depletion or despair. Be our shelter from the storms of this life that seem to batter us at will.

Open our eyes to see that it is not in the absence of difficulty or pressure that we can know rest...but it is wholly found in Your sweet and abiding presence! Call us even now to Your side and fill our hearts with a pervasive understanding of the holy rest You have knowingly and lovingly called us to...let us experience daily Your  place of sanctuary where we are repaired and renewed and let us know through personal experience that Your everlasting arms are underneath us girding us with strength! Let us hear Your gentle voice and divine invitation calling us Your children, to sit quietly at Your feet and be filled and restored.  In Jesus name, Amen.