The song
starts out like this:
When I am down and, oh, my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart
burdened be;
Then I am still and wait here in the
silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with
me.
I don’t
think this song was written specifically for believers but I’m going to take it
that way.
It’s in
those times of being weary and emotionally down on the ground, God comes in the
silence and is just with me. I don’t have
to ask Him or plead that He be there. He just is. What a great comfort that is
to me.
When God
chose for me to be a widow eight years ago, the silence was pretty much what I
disliked the most. There were no noises of my husband breathing next to me while
he slept. There wasn’t the noise of him doing his paperwork at his desk or
blowing his nose and sounding like a moose! There were just no noises at all. All
that quiet really bothered me at first. I fully
expected to hear the door slam and someone call my name or say, “Honey, where
are you?”
But now, I have grown used to it. In fact, some days I long for it amidst my busy schedule and work. I don’t mind sitting at home alone by my fireplace in the quiet because it’s peaceful and it relaxes me.
Psalm 46:10
says: “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I
will be exalted in the earth.” Really knowing God and finding out about His
excellence can only be found in the stillness of the study of His Word. No
interruptions, no distractions. It’s then that God reveals himself to you in
the most intimate ways. Hearing God’s voice in the stillness gives you courage
and power to face what is to come. Those surprises are really a part of God’s
plan for our pathway.
So find some
time to be still and find out about your amazing God and Heavenly Father. You
will never regret it!
