OCTOBER 30

SILENT BEFORE HIM

“The Lord is in His holy temple; let all earth keep silence before Him.” (Habakkuk 2:20)

To be silent, to be quieted, literally means the end of all projection of self. The end of all action of our own will. A ceasing from running to and fro seeking to fill up the inner void. Thus this true state of being quieted, in silence before Him, can only follow the processing’s of making things equal, balanced within. No more see-sawing back and forth, no more ups and downs, no more double-mindedness that leaves us driven and tossed like the waves of the sea. What a work of sovereign grace to be wrought!

Therefore shall her (Babylon’s) young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off (silenced) in that day, saith the Lord.” (Jer. 50:20). All the warfare of Babylon shall be brought to an end. All of the fightings, bickerings, so-called holy crusades of religious group against some other religious group, all of it will have to end. How earth has groaned beneath all this confusion of religion. But the inflow of the truth, the life, the revelation of HIM who is the way, will bring an end to this whole ungodly system of religious institutionalism.

But even more important at the moment is our own personal being, and as long as we have any hangover from Babylon remaining in us, we cannot be silent. Religious traditions will wage a warfare, cast doubts, instigate fear, bring death wherever there is one vestige remaining of its corruption. I dare say, it is one thing to be called out of Babylon, and another thing to have all of Babylon purged out of us. But all of her young men, her off-spring will be silenced, and she will corrupt the earth no longer.

“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” (Ps. 37:8). This word “rest” is literally, “to be silent, quiet, standing still.” There is a ceasing from our own works, an entering into His rest, and it comes as He fills us with Himself. The more “HE IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE,” the more we shall be silent before Him – resting in His sufficiency, rejoicing in His love.

Ray Prinzing