The World’s Quietest Room!
"By faith the walls of Jericho fell
down after they were encircled
for seven days."
Hebrews 11: 30
If you want peace and quiet, visit the anechoic chamber
at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota. It’s designed to be
silent — so silent that background noise is measured in
negative decibels below the threshold of human hearing.
It’s one of the quietest rooms in the world. Visitors
report it’s so still they can hear the sound of blood
pumping in their heads or passing through their
veins.
We need a reasonable facsimile of that
room in our lives. Our world is loud and
noisy, and it’s difficult to
find stillness.
Can you imagine what it was like for Joshua and the people
of Israel to march around the walls of Jericho for six days in
utter silence? But God was teaching them, and being alone
with God in the quiet is important.
Make time today to go somewhere quiet with no distractions.
Be still and know that He is God. As you do so, the Lord will
enable you to encircle your problems in prayer like the
Israelites
did to Jericho.
"When you are praying, let there be intervals of silence,
reverent stillness of soul, in which you yield yourself to
God, in
case He may have aught He wishes to teach
you."
Andrew Murray
