Psalm 39:1-3
1 I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
2 I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
2 I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
Muse – (verb) to think or meditate in silence
Soooo, i’ve been sitting in my silence for too long. I’m kinda at that point where david is musing and the fire is burning. I don’t know how long I can keep “musing” for.
Since coming home I have quickly realized how strong of a weapon silence is. It’s crazy. It’s almost comical how strong it is and how weak of an act it is. It doesn’t take a whole lot to keep your mouth shut and what happens when you do, it’s scary.
Every relationship I’ve ever been in has come to this point of silence. Whether it’s getting too deep and real for me, or something that could create conflict happens and me and that person need to resolve it, I’ve hid from them in silence “restrain<ing>” my mouth with a “muzzle,” not even recognizing the “good” with my words.
What has followed these times of silence is tragic. Relationships that never go deeper, and sometimes even relationships that are lost. Relationships that our Father could use to trample Satan and his lies, theft, death, darkness. Instead those thing reign in my life and in that relationship.
If we’re not gonna stand up and speak out against evil, the chances of speaking up and standing for the Kingdom decrease.
If you’re sitting there and somethings burning in your chest, you’ve got this heavy weight there, almost to the point where you don’t feel like standing up.
SPEAK
The people around you need you. They need your voice. You’ve got words inside of you that have been planted by your Father. Words about yourself, your parents, brothers, sisters, friends, enemies. Words that will uproot any crap that’s been able to settle in your heart because of the silence.
We always hear that God speaks in a “still, small” voice. That’s because He does. He plants these ideas, visions, dreams, desires, wisdom silently into our hearts, into our ears individually and personally. It’s up to us to turn that voice unheard by the people around us, to the voice that can’t be turned down, that can’t be ignored. The voice and words that are so addicted we’re pressing “most recent” every few hours trying to stay updated on His status.
