The everyday life of a young Christian

Friday, 23 June 2017

THE BEAUTY OF SILENCE




The deacon and I paired up together during evangelism. We approached a lady sitting at the veranda of her house. The lady rebuked us, “I already know what the Bible says, I don’t need you”. I was tempted to reply but the deacon ushered us to go after saying to her, “God bless you.”

Many a time we want to reply to show how knowledgeable we are or proclaim our holiness, but there’s much to learn while being silent… the little we know now we acquire as a result of being silent.

By being silent we welcome God’s judgement – “The LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him” (Habakkuk 2:20). All the earth: the oppressed and the oppressor, sinners and saints, literates and illiterates. 

Silence allows us to recognize our own deficiency, and it allows us to surrender the need to judge and condemn others by trusting God to be God


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