A Discipleship of Silence

For God alone my soul waits in silence,
   for my hope is from him. …Trust in him at all times, O people;
   pour out your heart before him;
   God is a refuge for us.

Psalm 62

When we walk as disciples of Christ, we are invited to a new level of truth in our living and in our acting.

Silence and emptying are two parts of the prayer that lead to a more authentic relationship with God.

We need silence as a space for listening.

We need to ‘pour out our hearts’ to the Spirit, emptying ourselves.

The heart, according to the ancient Hebrews was the seat of human thoughts and emotions.  It was the innermost, hidden or deepest center of the human being.

In the Psalm when we are asked to pour out our hearts we are being asked to lay bare all that we feel and all that we think—all we are afraid of and all that we desire.  We are asked to share our whole selves.

We are asked to ‘pour out’ to make space for God’s thought and desires.

We are invited to a whole new orientation to our situation, and even to our very lives.

Discipleship is really about moving ever deeper and ever closer into the heart of God. 

We will be changed.  We will be transformed.

The beauty of this transformation is that we become what we always were.

Emptying our hearts of excess baggage makes us free to become our true selves.

This is the love of God in Christ-

He has come to give you back to yourself.

Blessings,

Debra