The Role of Silence
Silence is something the modern world doesn’t really know how to handle. Everywhere you turn, there’s noise—people talking, notifications buzzing, music playing, cars honking, someone always trying to fill the quiet. It’s almost like silence makes people uncomfortable, as if they’re afraid of what they’ll hear when there’s nothing left to distract them. But the Bible paints a very different picture of silence. In Scripture, silence isn’t emptiness. It’s not an absence of something—it’s the presence of something deeper, something sacred. In the Hebrew texts, one of the words often tied to silence is דּוּמִיָּה ( dumiyyah ), which means quietness, stillness, or even a kind of expectant silence before God. It’s used in places like Psalm 62:1 , where David says, "Truly my soul waits in silence for God; from Him comes my salvation." That word "waits in silence" is the same root. It’s not just being quiet; it’s an active, deliberate stillness, a kind of inner posture ...