In Silence or In Storm

"The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee" (Isaiah 26:8)

If God knows that your intention is to worship Him with every part of your being, He has promised to cooperate with you. On His side is the love and grace, the promises and the atonement, the constant help and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

On your side there is determination, seeking, yielding, believing. Your heart becomes a chamber, a sanctuary, a shrine in which there may be continuous, unbroken fellowship and communion with God. Your worship rises to God moment by moment.

Two of Spurgeon's greatest sermons were "God in the Silence" and "God In the Storm". The heart that knows God can find God anywhere. I surely join with Spurgeon in the truth that a person  filled with the Spirit of God, a person who has met God in a living encounter can know the joy of worshiping Him, whether in the silences of life or in the storms of life. There really is no argument. We know what God wants us to be. He wants us to be worshipers!

It is not the man who spends his times in the crowd and merely reflects the opinion, spirit and attainments of men who most benefits the world, but the man who listens to and speaks of things that have their birth beyond and far above the street.

~A. W. Tozer~
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Sinning With Silence

"He was in the world ... and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not" (John 1:10-11)

At this hour in world history the state of religion is such that the Church is in grave danger of losing [the spiritual treasures of God's wisdom]. Her gold is being turned to copper and her diamonds to glass. The religion of Cain is now in the ascendency - and marching under the banner of the cross.

Even among those  who make a great noise about believing the Bible, that Bible has virtually no practical influence left. Fiction, films, fun, frolic, religious entertainment, Hollywood ideals, big business techniques and cheap, worldly philosophies now overrun the sanctuary. The grieved Holy Spirit broods over the chaos but no light breaks forth. "Revivals" come without rousing the hostility of organized sin and pass without raising the moral level of the community or purifying the lives of professing Christians. Why?

Could it be that too many of God's true children are sinning against God by guilty silence? When those whose eyes are opened by the touch of Christ become vocal and active God may begin to fight again on the side of truth.

~A. W. Tozer~