There’s a silence that comes from spending time with God. The world likes to keep us distracted to keep our mental chatter at a high level, but God works miracles in silence.
The Bible shows us what Jesus did before He performed miracles or spoke to the crowds. He went off by Himself to pray. Not to complain, or talk mindless chatter, but to sit in silence with His Father. For God to speak to Him, and fill Him up to do God’s will.
I think this is something the modern day church doesn’t teach or sometimes doesn’t even do themselves. I think this is where we go wrong.
God has been laying on my heart to get closer to Him this year. And with the world in chaos, it’s something that will be harder to do than ever before.
The truth is the silence between our mental chatter is the peaceful, often fleeting gap between thoughts, it is a state of quiet awareness that mindfulness and meditation cultivate to offer rest from the constant internal noise, revealing clarity and a deeper cause by observing our thoughts without being swept away by them. This is what I am aiming for this year, not the usual “new year’s resolution.”
The challenge will be not to get stuck. Not to let my voice of the nag, not to, et my mind uselessly loop over the same things again and again.
I believe that our inner voices can be one of our greatest strengths when we can control them. They can take us to a whole other realm. Our inner voices can allow us to imagine different pasts or exciting futures, but they can also trap us in a hell of our own making.
Mental chatter can make it really hard for us to think and perform well, and the reason is that we only have so much ability to focus at any given minute of time. If all of our focus is devoted to our mental chatter, we won’t get much done.
The silence between the mental chatter can provide a break from the constant stream of consciousness that can reduce mental fatigue and stress, that the kind of silence I want to strive for, only in longer intervals.
From Pity to Praise 