Spoken in Silence

The dialog goes something like this

• God : “shhhhh…….”.
• me : “but God, please….”
• God : “Be still.”
• me : “I just need………”
• God : “I know what you need child.”

It happens far too often. I try to talk to God and get distracted by something, anything that takes my attention away from Him for just a moment and as the saying goes, the moment is gone. I make Him wait and wait He does.

Have you ever wondered what He might tell you if you had put everything and everyone aside and made it all wait? Would the world come to a screeching halt if you took a few moments to just be with Him? Yes, give Him back a small piece of the time that He has given you. What would be the result of your not only taking time with God but being quiet in that time?

So often we go to Him and we make our requests known. There is nothing wrong with that. Have you considered what He might speak to you if you were to be quiet? Are you so busy going through your list of requests that you don’t take the time to listen for His voice?

My treasured time with God is in the morning. After everyone leaves the house I turn off the television or radio, get off the computer, unplug the phone (rarely is there a legitimate reason for anyone to call me at that hour anyway), open a window in my bedroom and crawl back into bed. I don’t go back to sleep but I so much enjoy listening to the breeze blowing through the large tree in the front yard. The birds singing their praises as they continue to do their tasks. When it’s raining, the sound of the drops hitting my tin roof is so soothing. Once in awhile God blesses me with a thunderstorm in the morning. I so enjoy the dynamic sounds of His orchestra.

Some of my favorite sounds are those heard in the silence. Do you stop to listen to the voices of the frogs at night? What about the crickets? Do you enjoy their music? I think my favorite is the tiny, melodic sound of the Whippoorwill (their song). Beautiful isn’t it?

God longs to speak to us but do we really want to listen? He speaks in a language that only our souls can understand. God speaks to us in way that we only understand if our hearts are tuned and listening for Him.

Genesis 1:1

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

ESV
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spiritof God moved upon the face of the waters.

KJV

My intention here was to do a simple Bible study and invite anyone to join along. I’m not so good at doing things simply however. This is my personal study so anyone who reads it may or may not learn something from it and that’s fine.
My studies generally include as many tools as I can gather and I tend to spend alot of time examining a few verses at a time before I move on. It’s a long, slow process for me but this is the best way for me to learn. Take from it what you wish and feel free to comment and join in with me.

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- God ( אלהים el-o-heem’.) the supreme God.

El signifies the strong God; and what less than almighty strength could bring all things out of nothing.

- Form (תּהוּ to’-hoo) desolate, desert; a figuratively worthless thing. There was confusion.
- Darkness (חשׁך: kho-shek’) misery, destruction, death, ignorance, wickedness. (חשׁבנה: khash-ab-naw’), inventiveness. ( חשׁב: khaw-shab’) to weave or (generally) to fabricate.
- Face פּנים (paw-neem) favor.
- Spirit (רוּח roo’-akh) wind; air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, X vain and( רוּח
roo’-akh) to blow, that is, breathe; only (literally) to smell or (by implication perceive (figuratively to anticipate, enjoy): – accept, smell, X touch, make of quick understanding.
- Moved ( רחף raw-khaf’), by implication to be relaxed: – flutter, move, shake.
- Upon (על al) between, beyond the time
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“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Heaven and earth have not existed from all eternity, but had a beginning; nor did they arise by emanation from an absolute substance, but were created by God. This sentence, which stands at the head of the records of revelation, is not a mere heading, nor a summary of the history of the creation, but a declaration of the primeval act of God, by which the universe was called into being. The word “called” implies that God called creation by name, indicating a His ownership and authority over it.

That this verse is not a heading merely, is evident from the fact that the following account of the course of the creation commences with (and), which connects the different acts of creation with the fact expressed in this verse, as the primary foundation upon which they rest. “In the beginning” is used absolutely, like in 1John 1:1, and in Is. 46:10. The following clause cannot be treated as subordinate, either by rendering it, “in the beginning when God created …, the earth was,” etc., or “in the beginning when God created…(but the earth was then a chaos, etc.), God said, Let there be light” (Ewald and Bunsen).The verb Piel (to hew out), means literally “to cut, or new,” but in Kal it always means to create, and is only applied to a divine creation, the production of that which had no existence before.

Hence, if in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, “there is nothing belonging to the composition of the universe, either in material or form, which had an existence out of God prior to this divine act in the beginning” (Delitzsch).

Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament