Keep silence before God

Keep silence before God

Habakkuk 2: 20 But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Some places and occasions ask for silence. So I visited with my family a cemetery of American and Canadian soldiers. There you can see all those white crosses and on each cross is a name. Each cross stands for a killed soldier. But if you look beyond you can also see the ages of when they died. And then I got really quiet, I see some ages as 18 and 23 are, young fathers and newlywed men. When I realized what those people have done for us, then I was silent and I let it work inside my head. By the silence you can better reflect and realize how great the sacrifice of these people is.

Keep silence, is what Habakuk calls us up to. Not just for a moment, as for instance for a football match is held a minute's silence and then move on, but real silence. Be silent to get closer to God, be silent and make contact with Him, be silent and consider what Christ has done. Silence is a way to worship.

If you're silent you can concentrate better. You can keep other thoughts out of your head and your mind focuses on God. You're going to think about Him and you can contact Him. So you can get to know Him better and He has the opportunity to you to teach you who He is. Because if you are silent, you are not distracted. In our society there is not much silence. Everything is done with sound. Many people you see on bikes with earphones and those are not able to create silence, but to listen music. Many people think silence is even scary because then they should start thinking. Silence is relax and your mind thinking. 

Are you looking for that silence too sometimes? Don’t listen to music, but be silent for a short time. Maybe the beginning of the day, a good time for being silent, but it could also be that you prefer the middle of the day or at the end. But if you want silence and trie to make contact with God, then you will contact Him and you will notice that He makes contact with you too.

You usually be silent out of honor and respect. At a war cemetery it is usually very silent. Anyone who walks there is silent out of honor and respect for what those people have done for us. So it is with God. You may come to Him in silence and in that silence you adore Him. You let him see your submission, your reverence. He is, after all, that God who created the Earth and who has overcome death. He is that God who loves us while we deeply didn’t want to deal with Him? Be silent before him!

This does not apply to just a select group of people, but for whole of the Earth. Everyone is called to be silent for the great King. Everyone is called upon to show respect for Him and to show how great God is. It may not be that you do not have to be silent before God! There is no valid excuse to not be silent before Him. He desires it of us and then you don’t want to do anyway?

In the silence you will be filled by him. As He claims, He gives as well. That silence gives you peace and strength to continue. Also if it is hard or pressure is high to live or whatever in your life applies. If you be silent before Him, He gives you what you need!