Silence

During one Christmas season I woke up to the radio playing Silent Night. As I lay listening to it, I began to think about the word "silent". The day before I had just read Revelation 8:1 which says "When He opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour"

Silence in Heaven must be deafening.

I thought about silence. I wondered, did heaven hold its breath in complete silence when the Great I Am, the Prince of Peace become the Lamb of God in form of a brand new baby boy?

Did Heaven hover? Did Heaven look in wonder?

I believe heaven was made known through the heavenly host singing to the shepherds, through the stars that blazed with light, through the sheep; through all creation itself as it recognized that the Creator just came through His created to live in His creation. How amazing is that? His tiny eyes opening and seeing a face so familiar and yet so unfamiliar...He saw her before she saw Him. He watched her being knit together in her mother's womb, before He was knit together in her womb.

God blows my mind.

I think heaven waited with bated breath for 33 years while its precious Own walked this earth doing and obeying the will of His Father.

In Matthew 26:53 when Jesus is arrested, He tells Peter, the disciple who cut off the guards ear, "do you think I cannot call on my Father and He will at once put at My disposal more than 12 legions of angels?" When He spoke those words I wonder if heaven was suddenly filled with the sound of infinite whispering as thousands of angels readied themselves, their wings twitching with anticipation and with a readiness to go at just a word from their Creator, God Almighty. Then settling back to silence as Jesus finished His statement; "But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way."

The obedient Lamb of God, determined to obey, sharing the vision of His Father to see scriptures fulfilled. Jesus was not the Lamb until He came to earth to fulfill prophecy. He then became the Lamb of God. The final sacrificial Lamb. YOUR salvation. Behold the Lamb.

Behold Him with silence. Be still for a moment this season, the eve of the day we celebrate His birth. And know.