Dear Friends,
There will be times in your life when it feels like everything stops. All the things that keep you busy. It may be due to illness, redundancy, moving home, enduring personal loss. This quiet season is not punishment. It is preparation. When you and I come to understand that the sooner the suffering of the silence stops feeling like abandonment and starts feeling like what it is, one of the most intentional seasons God ever walks His people through.
We automatically seek the breakthrough, the open door, the answered prayer, those are the moments that get the testimony. Those are the seasons that make sense from the outside looking in. But the quiet seasons. The ones where heaven feels like it is closed. Where everyone around you seems to be moving and you are standing completely still. Where God feels simultaneously closer than He has ever been and more silent than you can bear. Those seasons are doing something the loud ones cannot.
Elijah heard God not in the wind that tore the mountains apart. Not in the earthquake. Not in the fire. After all of it, in the still small voice. 1 Kings 19 v 12. The silence was not the absence of God. It was the presence of God in a form that required stillness to receive. And stillness is exactly what the quiet season forces. It forces you off the performance treadmill. It separates you from the noise long enough to hear what God has been trying to say underneath all of it. It strips away the busyness that has been keeping you from the depth He has been inviting you into. It creates the conditions for the kind of intimacy that loud seasons never could. The quiet is not empty. It is full of everything God has been waiting to say to a heart that was finally still enough to hear it.
Do not fill the silence with distraction because the stillness makes you uncomfortable. Do not perform your way through a season God designed for you to receive in. Go deeper. Get still. Let Him speak. Because what God is saying in the quiet is always worth more than anything the noise had to offer.
God bless you, David.
