Do you like times of complete silence or do you need the constant sound of background noise?

I’m a background noise kind of guy! When I’m driving in the car I need the radio on, when I’m sitting at home I need either the TV on or some kind of music playing and even when I’m taking a nap I like some kind of quiet background noise (Golf on the TV does the trick for me, and I’m an big golfer!).

This preference of mine is never a problem except until God decides to be silent when I want him to speak. Have you noticed how God speaks when you’re not excepting him to, and when you want him to talk he remains silent? Maybe, maybe not, but that is usually how it goes for me.

So about three weeks ago the location we had planned (and signed a rental agreement!) to launch Generation Church in fell through. To be honest I wasn’t entirely upset. I was never comfortable with the space and knew that this must be a God thing. However, since then it has seemed like God has gone silent. I was fully expecting God to quickly open a new door and for us to move forward. However, that hasn’t happened. In fact I really want to start panicking as the lack of noise from heaven is too uncomfortable for me.

However, it is in times like this I know that God is causing us to be still. In the fact King David in one of his Psalms said to be still and know that God is God. This is difficult for me! What makes it worse is that there are a few options out there we are pursuing, but what I have discovered about rentals and also real estate is that there is a lot of waiting and times of complete silence. I think this is exactly how God works at times!

I just want to press on and keep things rolling, God on the other hand wants me to sometimes to sit back, reflect and allow him to move when his timing is right. The ironic thing is that this is a lesson that is taking me a very long time to learn.

What situation in your life is God requiring you to sit back, reflect and allow God to go about his work in his time?