Sunday, December 20, 2015

IN SECRET & IN SILENCE


“The secret things belong to the Lord our God,
but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may do all the words of this Law.”
Deuteronomy 29:29

God came to earth in secret the night He was born in a manger in Bethlehem.  No trumpets, no press release, no breaking in our regular broadcast.  Not even the Inn keeper was awakened.  A song of celebration was sung in the heavenlies.  Angels went and told some shepherds out in the field tending to their sheep.  A star alerted three wise men from the East.  But other than that this was a quiet event; an event that changed the world forever.

That seems to be the way God does things; in secret and far from the maddening crowd.  He speaks and deals with individuals quietly.  Then those individuals do perform deeds beyond measure.  It is in stillness and the solitude that God speaks His plans and prepares His people.  The deeds are miraculous and the affects are eternally magnificent.  But they were all born in secret and in silence.


It makes me wonder as I live in a world full of much noise, what is being planned in secret, and who is God preparing in the silence.

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