The Importance of Silence

Isaiah 8:8 is an admonition from Isaiah to us not to fall prey to the indictment that the generation of Jesus fell prey to, namely a failure to consider what was really happening. How many of us do that? What's the first thing that happens in the morning? The radio comes on. Do you ever turn it off till you go? Why don't reach over and make a 15-minute moment of solitude in which you consider that he was cut off out of the land of the living?"