Lawrence Coughlin use to say, “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. Did you ever notice how Jesus was always slipping away to be alone and pray to His father? My wife and I even have problems finding a quiet restaurant where we can talk without TVs. Car steros, I-Pods, cell phones, computers, and other forms of technology all each bombard our feable attempts to find solitude.
Perhaps that’s why King David in Psalm 119:147: says, “I rise early, before the sun is up; I cry out for help and put my hope in your words, (NLT). Notice he had learned the importance of not just spewing out a laundry list to God, but getting ourselves into a quiet atmosphere where we can hear Him speak back to us. That might be through words from the Bible or by hushed inner promptings from Holy Spirit.
Psalm 46:10 says to “be still and know that I am God.”(NLT) This verse is instructing us to quiet ourselves and come to understand that He is God. Contemptation on who God is takes time, yet when we make the investment of our time He increases our confidence. Because we have a better understanding who we are praying to, we are certain that what we ask of Him, He can do.
The old testament word for Salvation meant deliverance. Lamintations 3:26, says, “So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.”(NLT) I wonder how often the Lord has wanted to deliver wisdom, insights or answers to me, but I haven’t done my part to quietly wait before Him? Why not find a quiet place this evening where you can spend a little one on one time with God?
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