If obedience is given with a bad will and with murmuring not only in words but even in bitterness of heart, then even though the command may be externally fulfilled it will not be accepted by God, for he can see the resistance in the heart of a murmurer. One who behaves in such a way not only fails to receive the reward of grace but actually incurs the punishment deserved by murmurers. Only repentance and reparation can save such a one from this punishment."
Benedict of Nursia
Is it possible to hear with our world so full of noise everywhere?
Last night as I tried to sit in silence I hear the water running from the teens starting the shower...........it's 10pm and I feel so tired. Baseball is blarring on the television. I hear a radio from another teens room. Then another teen slams the refrigerator door for the 100th time. If silence is truly a miracle itself..........why is it so hard to have?
It's true I guess that the days of noise can be deafening and cause you to lose your way
The visions of my past of being silenced now by the redeeming blood of the "great I AM!"
As I lay on my bed at night it is me who closes my eyes and wishes I could climb into the lap of the Saviour............and sleep away with the wings of grace covering my ugly.
There are days when the tongue whips words out the harsh and you wonder how you could have really said that.
It is then I think about the WORD himself............the one who is true, and pure who bent the lowest of them all........who kept himself the silent to take it all for us. Who is this God I have to ask myself?
The world is so full of noise but it is Him so full of truth. Yet He is indescribable.........with His outstretched hands........open and willing to take the pain of being nailed to a cross.......a cross He even carried on His back.......the one with no beginning and no end. With words being taunted at Him for hours but His lips never SPOKE stop because He was consumed with, " AGAPE" love for us that is incomprehensible.............it requires no WORDS for He is the WORD Himself!
Who is this God I have asked..............The one who carried it all for sinners........even when the sin was heavy, messy, and ugly. He never said a word..............but continued to carry the cross for us all.
God the light of the World..........who came only to save. The one who is the Word that surrendered His all for the ones whose mouths can't stop............ complaining........... gossiping................screaming "it's all about me."
Silence can offer up our embrace.
When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.(Proverbs 10:19)
He who bleed............for us all................who took darkness upon himself........only to give....... us the true meaning of LOVE.
Our God is love and love is God.
Want you join me in getting to know the WORD himself this year?
all is well,
Robbie
