Speechless
Luk 9:34 While he was babbling on like this, a light-radiant cloud enveloped them. As they found themselves buried in the cloud, they became deeply aware of God.
Luk 9:35 Then there was a voice out of the cloud: “This is my Son, the Chosen! Listen to him.”
Luk 9:36 When the sound of the voice died away, they saw Jesus there alone. They were speechless. And they continued speechless, said not one thing to anyone during those days of what they had seen.
They had both been touched by this person in the same way, and it really didn’t matter that he was the boss’s son, they each felt a need to express just how they felt about the situation. So, when they met at the staff party, after a short discussion next to the punch bowl, they agreed to go separately to the back terrace, where their conversation could have some privacy. Under the cloak of the moonless sky and comforted by their seclusion from the crowd, their tongues were loosed to express what was on their heart. They carried on for quite awhile, each fueled by the thoughts of the other, until a storm that had been building throughout their conversation began to arrive with its gusting promise of a downfall soon to come. Just as they were turning to go back inside, a flash of lightning from the storm revealed a sole person sitting oh so quietly in a dark area next to the house. What they had failed to realize during their whole bearing of their hearts was that every spoken word had been heard by not just some insignificant newcomer to the company. Their whole dialogue had been witnessed by the owner of the company himself and the father of the very one about whom they had been airing their grievances. Needless to say, there was a depth in their awareness of his presence that gripped them to the core of their being and left them speechless for the rest of the evening, especially when they discovered that a partial reason for the party was to announce the son’s ascendance to the position of his father in the company.
There is Someone sitting quietly in the shadows listening to our every conversation and hearing all that flows from our babbling lips. As His presence is revealed by the light of His glory, it will have a most definite effect upon the flow from our mouths, especially when we discover that the subjects of our conversation are the very ones He’s chosen to carry on the work of His heart. There is an ever growing impact of speechlessness with regard to expressed grievances the deeper we go in awareness that God Himself is listening. We increasingly desire not to vent nearly as much as to hear the words of the Master and remove ourselves altogether from the judgment and decision making process. The greater our knowledge that He is within eyesight and ear shot in our every moment, the greater will be our desire to let every word, every thought, and every meditation be acceptable and pleasing to Him. Conversations might lose some of the spice, but they will make great gains in health and nourishment as the damaging elements are removed.
