In the business world, there is a hierarchy which is inviolate. The head office dictates, the satellite offices disseminate, and the individual employees do the footwork.
The employees cannot dictate to the head office.
The military is the same way. A soldier must accept those in authority over him, for authority flows only one direction, down, from the head to the foot.
Habakkuk 2:20 outlines this same power structure for us in the spiritual world. We read, “The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.”
What does this mean for us? After all, we are the foot soldiers, the individual employees who do the footwork. We are God’s hands upon this earth. What does God mean when he says to keep silence upon the whole earth? Is God being rude? Is this his way of telling us to “shut up,” to quit sending him selfish prayers day and night? The complaint tray has been thrown away, and the suggestion box locked in a closet?
Certainly not. Rather, God speaks to those things that distract our attention from him. Houses. Cars. Money. Social standing. Anything that preoccupies us and keeps us from finding time to worship him. God is speaking to the dumb idols in our lives. Yes, dumb, for these things cannot speak to us; they cannot answer our prayers; they cannot say unto the sea, “Be still and know that I am God.”
God communicates to us through Habakkuk, and he tells us that he is a Living God, and he sits on his throne in the heavens. There is no one thing on earth that is important enough to keep us from calling out to him and singing his praises every day.
God cries “Silence!” to the cacophony of this world, in order that we may hear his still, small voice and know his will for us upon this earth.
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