Day 123 – Perfect Silence.
Today’s Reading: Job 1 – 3
Job 2:13 “And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.”
Someone once told me you know you have a great friend when you can sit with them in silence and completely content. Being that I’m a thinker I can completely agree with this. I love to be around people, but I love it even more when we can just ride together on a long road trip and look out the window and gaze at the world passing us by thinking about everything under creation.
It’s not awkward silence, it’s perfect peace.
When people try to make conversation, when words aren’t needed, the words that come out can be more than empty. They can hurt more than help, damaging the situation even more.
Proverbs 10:19 “When words are many, transgression is not lacking,but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.”
Job, one of my favorite books of the Bible, shows the relationship between a group of friends. It wasn’t always good, but it started out that way. Our buddy, Job, had just had a really bad day. Satan was after his soul, but God knew Job would be faithful. He was robbed of his property and his children, Satan poured out sores on his body and he became a stench to society. Even his wife scorned him because he didn’t yell at God and just ask to die. But his friends showed up in a big way. They heard the news of their dear friend and came from far to see him. They saw how he was mourning and decided it was best to just sit with him and be there if he needed anything.
Sometimes what’s best for us in a moment of grief, frustration, or hurt is to have a friend sit with us in our weakness not saying a word. Because it’s not words that need to fill the air, but love that needs to fill our heart.
Years ago, when droves of people came into my home to mourn over the loss of my son it was the silence among us that drove us together, the hugs without words that expressed more sympathy and love, and it was in those moments that I experienced His perfect peace in their perfect silence.
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