In the U.S. culture there is a way of life that encourages each person to continue to push forth in their day...each second, each minute...KEEP GOING!!! I continually see those around me filling their days with more and more things do to crossing off of their lists in completion in the end measuring up their "success." Is there something wrong with this picture? What has life become where has peace, rest, and being still gone?
I am one of these people who don't like to be still. By whole being desires to be still to rest and be at peace but it's as though a force tries to keep be going so I don't see the true realities around.
Lately I've been trying to just sit and be still with the LORD but I have a desperately hard time with that. It's difficult to just sit and be ok with the silence. Just as it's difficult for me to not fill the breathing space of conversations with words.
Christ is always present in our lives...but we are not ok with just sitting to listen to Him. The dissonance in music is beautiful, but the dissonance of waiting in life is a bit more challenging.
So what do we do, what do I do? What is in this silence that the LORD is sitting with me in?
It's as though there is an atmosphere of warmth and peace around me...but because I want to push forward I don't sit and enjoy it.
I don't know why God has us, me, to wait and sit and listen to Him in the silence and stillness...
but I think just as when you wake up and take a walk when the town is still asleep, or you journey through nature there is a serene peace that allows you to see clearer and to finally breathe.
If you find yourself in this place know you're not alone...just be still as the dissonance moves about you and enjoy this season as the Lord coats you in His grace.
Know your success doesn't come from doing, life is more then a schedule...take time and sit.
Silence and stillness contains sweet mysteries.
"Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him..." Psalm 37:7
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