Noise is artificial significance.
Noise gives the promise of safety, but it never delivers it.
Noise feels like the presence but lacks the person.
Noise fills the gaps where silence wants to penetrate.

Silence is a gift that is often forfeited out of fear of what we willl hear.
Silence is misunderstood because of the noise in our own heads.
Silence is powerful and penetrates the deep places of our lives.
Silence is truth that sets us free if only we will submit to it.

Psalm 62 says, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory; The rock of my strength, And my refuge, is in God.”

How much truth do we forfeit because we love the noise of scrolling over the silence of reading God’s word?

How many hours do we waste trying to figure it out on our own, rather than waiting in the silence for the all knowing God to speak?

How much money do we spend trying to meet a need created by all the noise in our head, because we can’t handle the stillness called rest?

When we wait silently for God alone (selah) we find Him to be the very person we need, the very answer to our question, the very revealer of the lies lodged deep in our heart. We find His still small voice speaking words that will set us free, giving us commands that will get us out of our mess, and offering us solutions to problems we ourselves created.

Most people are troubled by noise, both outside of them and inside of them, but God is not noise, He is silence and His silence speaks, His silence reveals, His silence heals, His silence is a frequency that only He can emit in order to transform us, if only we would surrender to the silence. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org