BE QUIET

Worship this Sunday was unique in that I had to come up with some filler due to some technical difficulties. Some how the CD player got disconnected in the sound booth and there was a little time that the service was simply sitting in total silence. Of course, you're thinking like everyone else. The pastor needs to get up and do something. I did eventually get up and provide some filler, but the silence I let envelope the service. Many of us would call it awkward silence.

It is amazing how we can think that the silence would mess up the service or that the silence was not in the bulletin and therefore no one would know that the silence was coming. Some would think the entire service was a disaster. I tell you that the service went great and that silence was a great segment of the worship service. We are so tied up in society with everything being fast and furious. Information flying and fast food is not fast enough. Television is even set up to have no pauses in order to keep our attention. Silence is a great thing and silence in worship is an act of worship in itself.

Jesus was teaching the Pharisees in Luke 11 that they were so caught up in the prestige that they were missing out on the main thing. He told them that they were more caught up on the idea of where they stand in the synagogue than they were caught up on worship.

May we not ever get caught up on how the service is supposed to go every Sunday. May we not focus what is on the outside, but let us focus on worship. The pharisees where mad at Jesus because he didn't wash his hands before he ate. Like Jesus needs to wash his hands to do anything. May we not get caught up on the process, but let us be caught up on the greatness of the God who loves us.

I got up and broke the awkward silence by speaking on the blessing of awkward silence in our lives. BE QUIET TODAY and read Psalm 46:10 and Zechariah 2:13.