Silence

"Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling."

~Zechariah 2:13
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I was reading my devo the other day and it was about God meeting with us in the stillness of our souls. I read the devo and was like,

"Well, that was good and all, but if You wanted my soul to be still then why are You opening all of these old wound up and making chaos out of what I thought was a pretty well put together life?"

And I proceded on to the Scripture verses which were all great, of course, but did not feel quite as fulfilled and excited as I normally do after reading and meditating. However, something about the first passage I read stuck out to me. It was the passage from Zechariah.

It seriously bothered me for some reason. I could not figure out why God had roused Himself.

Was it from anger? Was it to bless? Was it to curse? Was it to obliterate the Israelites enemies????

I went to read the verse after verse 13, but there were none. It was a new chapter....talking about Joshua. When I saw it was not a continuation of verse 13 I got frustrated and gave up. I set my Bible aside and said,

"God, what in the world? Why did You not give a little more detail here. What were You doing? What got Your attention so much that You told ALL FLESH to be silent because You had roused Yourself? Hello, I need answers, and I need to know what You are doing. What in the world are You up to right now???? You cannot expect me to just sit here in silence because You got up. Can You at least give me a clue as to what is going on?

(As if I have a right to question how and why God chose to write the Bible. Seriously, who am I to question His authoring rights? Sigh...This is just a transparent moment for me to all of you of my regular conversations with my Daddy)

Anyways, it was like in that moment of rushing about in my soul that He seemed to touch the rushing waters with His finger and calmed my innermost being.  Suddenly I got it,

"Ohhhh, silence!!!!!! (as I was still talking to Him...) I get it! I do not have to know what, why, or how long....You just want me to be silent! I get it! Okay!!"

Almost instantly a song welled up inside of me so I grabbed my guitar and what came out is what I have posted below. Ignore the video, but I hope that the words can be of some encouragement to you as you learn to sit in silence with the Most Holy One.