Quiet Ourselves

January 16

In the cacophony of conflicting information about God, we sometimes cannot hear the inerrant truth that God has established. We live in the ‘information age’ and there is a ceaseless bombardment of doctrines and interpretation of them that vie for credibility in every man’s mind.

Someone identified our situation well when he said, ‘Where is the knowledge we’ve lost in information? Where is the wisdom we’ve lost in knowledge?’ There is so much ‘noise,’ purporting itself as being relevant to our lives that we have become confused; our understanding has become darkened to the point of being unable to see truth.

Yet if we will take God at His word, if we will listen, we will discover that He is not in the clamorous noise that is vying for our attention. No. As the Word says in I Kings 19:12, ”…the Lord is in the still, small voice.” When we want to hear the Lord, we must quiet ourselves. We cannot hear Him while we are caught up in the world’s jangle of noise.

And when we are quiet before Him, we will receive the promise expressed in Psalm 85:8 which says, “I will listen to what God the Lord will say; He promises peace to His people; He promises peace to His saints.” In the quiet of His presence is the confidence to face whatever tomorrow holds in the quiet assurance of His truth and His peace.