Silence
Make God’s voice the loudest thing in your life.
I don’t want to be another voice on the internet.
I don’t want to live a curated Christianity.
I don’t want to deliver a watered-down word in the name of posting.
I don’t want to build a following for myself.
I don’t want to manufacture a message.
I don’t want to live one way online and a different way in real life.
I’ve recently come to a place of wrestling. Who am I really and how do I fit into God’s landscape? I’ve written about the wilderness and here I am again. But this time, I am in a wilderness in which I’m struggling to feel God. A spiritual dryness has settled in. This is a season. God at the start of the year gave me the verse Isaiah 43:18-19 - Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old; behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. I have faith that I will see the roads and the rivers. It is interesting that life can seem so good on paper but the soul feels sapped. That is because the soul isn’t bound to paper. God is in the business of reshaping and I surrender.
The world is so noisy. I don’t want to be another shout in the abyss. So many people with so many opinions, claiming a form of godliness but not really being godly. Narrow is the road. I want to get back to the heart of worship, a place of pure and undefiled religion (James 1:27), a place of oneness with the Father. True godliness, not a form of it. A simple and quiet life (I Thessalonians 4:11).
Read your Bible more than you read anything else. I’m speaking most loudly to myself here. Listen to God’s voice more than the voices on the internet, the news, and social media. Seek God above all else. I pray the Lord’s peace upon all who are reading this. I am a deeply imperfect woman on a journey to know God in the deepest way possible. As 2024 comes to a close in less than 2 months, I am challenging myself to seek silence in a very loud world. More importantly, I am going to seek God in the silence. I am going on a fast from the noise of this world to gain clarity, peace, direction, rest, and fresh power to live as God intends. The blog will be quiet, but I have faith that my heart will be full. The best is yet to come.
XO Elise Chanelle.