Speechless

Daniel 10:15 NLT While he was speaking to me, I looked down at the ground, unable to say a word.

One of the most frequent questions asked by Christ followers is what we will ask God when we arrive in heaven. While many plan to ask about specific events or circumstances in their life, scripture paints a very different reality of what will occur when we encounter the full presence of God.

Luke 5:1-11 outlines Simon Peter’s first interactions with Jesus. They had been fishing all night and caught nothing. Upon returning to the shoreline, they found a man, Jesus, being pressed into the water by a crowd of people desperately trying to hear him proclaim the Word of God in ways not previously heard. Jesus climbed into Peter’s boat to finish speaking. When finished, He instructed Peter’s crew to push back into the deep waters and cast out their nets. Despite their exhaustion from a night of fishing and having little faith they would catch anything in the heat of the day, they did as Jesus instructed. Their nets were soon overflowing and filled two boats with one cast. Verse 9 tells us Simon Peter and the other fishermen were “seized with amazement.” Peter, of all people, was speechless. The glorious person of Jesus is beyond description—His qualities are unequaled, His love overwhelming, and His miracles leave us speechless.

One of the greatest acts of worship is sitting quietly in God’s presence. Absorbing his immeasurable love, expressing deep gratitude for God's blessings, and that He gave everything to have a deep, intimate, continuous relationship with you. Being speechless before God is acknowledging His greatness, power, and presence in a way that leaves you unable to express your awe or gratitude in words. It's a moment of quiet reverence and understanding of His majesty and love. It is that moment when your eyes are fully opened to understand the whys and purpose of everything in life.

Abraham, Moses, Aaron, Balaan, Manoah and his wife, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Elijah, John the Apostle, twenty-four elders of heaven, and every living creature in heaven all fell speechless when they found themselves face-to-face in the presence of almighty God. Moses lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights in repentance for his sin and interceding for Aaron and the people of Israel. The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but Moses prayed and the Lord listened (Deuteronomy 9:25-29).

We drown ourselves in entertainment to avoid the silence where God speaks most clearly. “Kings will stand speechless in His presence. For they will see what they had not been told; they will understand what they had not heard about” Isaiah 52:15. In the silence of God’s presence, everything becomes clear; we see things from God’s perspective and understand all that has been a mystery.  But too often, we are afraid of silence and fill these moments with nervous chatter or meaningless activity. Job 13:5 tells us, “If only you could be silent!”

Speechless is where the Lord fights for you: “The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” Exodus 14:14. But too often we see the need to speak up and defend ourselves. As Jesus was falsely accused by the religious leaders, He “was silent and made no reply.” Mark 14:61.

Spend time quietly before the Lord, allowing the silence to immerse you in the fullness of His love for you, allowing His gentle voice to fill you with peace, strength, hope, and joy, and resting in the knowledge that all of His plans for you are good. Speechless before Him.

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Revelation 1:17-18 ESV When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.”

Revelation 4:9-11 ESV And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

Revelation 5:11-14 NIV Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!” Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!” The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

Isaiah 6:1-3 ESV In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

1 Kings 18:36-39 NIV The prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord —he is God! The Lord —he is God!”

Joshua 5:13-15 NLT When Joshua was near the town of Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with sword in hand. Joshua went up to him and demanded, Are you friend or foe? Neither, he replied. I am the commander of the Lord ’s army. At this, Joshua fell with his face to the ground in reverence. I am at your command, Joshua said. What do you want your servant to do?  The commander of the Lord ’s army replied, Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy. And Joshua did as he was told.

Genesis 17:1-3 NLT When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, I am El-Shaddai—God Almighty. Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants. At this, Abram fell face down on the ground.

Ezekiel 3:22-24 NIV The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.” So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown. Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and spoke to me.