Noise – Part 2
Then came a great wind, an earthquake, and a burning fire. But the Lord was not in these. Then we read, “after the fire a still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12). Or perhaps it could read, “the sound of a gentle stillness.”
God had worked by fire at Carmel, but in spite of this, there was still no revival in Israel. “When he saw that…” (not heard that — for Elijah wasn’t afraid of wicked Jezebel; he was discouraged at the lack of response to God) he fled “for his life.” Not to save his life in fear, but to lay it down as finished, useless and hopeless in despair. The Lord taught him that in spite of the fact that nothing appeared to be happening, God was in the “sound of a gentle stillness.”
So it seems, for some well-intentioned but mistaken believers today, that if there is no “activity,” no “excitement,” no outward display, they think God is not at work and all is at a standstill. Instead of the quietness of faith that can listen to the “still small voice,” up jumps the agitated flesh that endeavours by novel programs, new methods, and worldly presentations, to produce an artificial earthquake, a bombastic wind and a strange fire.
Continued…
