Silence

Sometimes in our lives God is silent. It is not that we have learned all we need to know so that He has nothing left to teach us. Not a chance. It is not that He is displeased with us and doesn't enjoy our presence. We are His beloved, loved with everlasting love. Can you name a moment that is not a part of "everlasting"? It is not even that He is hiding His presence from us. The exact opposite is true. I believe His silence is trying to reinforce a simple truth in our lives--His presence is enough. He doesn't need to be doing anything for us. He doesn't need to be teaching us some new truth. If sitting in total silence in a room with someone I love and someone who I know loves me on a human level is serenity, how much deeper should my peace be when I am in the room with the eternal, faithful, Lover of my soul? And He has promised that He will never leave me--never. And He has promised that He is always near at hand--near, always. He is always "in the room." I am never alone. And it is that truth, that "sense of His presence," that empowers me to love Him faithfully no matter what. A friend loves at all times. Jesus "in the room" is enough. It is serenity, it is peace, it is the fortress that guards my heart and mind so that I can love rightly and think spiritually. Yes, it is the joy of living. Obediently. At all times. No matter how silent--how deafening the silence, His love for me is reverberating throughout the stillness. Yes, the stillness that allows me to rest in the knowledge that He is my ever-present God. "Moment by moment I'm kept in His love; moment by moment there's life from above; looking to Jesus till glory doth shine; moment by moment O Lord, I am Thine."