When You Cannot Keep Silent, Where Are You?

Job Chapter 32

Elihu appears.

He is angry because Job justified himself.

He is also angry because Job’s friends could not answer him.

He has listened in silence for a long time.

But at last, he begins to speak.

“My words are ready to burst forth.”

“I cannot keep silent.”

When people feel they must speak,

they can no longer remain quiet.

But the real question is not

what is being said,

but where it is coming from.

Is it coming from personal zeal?

Or from God?

When you cannot keep silent,

where are you?

Are you speaking from your own zeal?

Or are you standing before God

and speaking from there?

Elihu begins to speak

from the words that fill him within.

But the urgency to speak

is not the sameas speaking from God.

God is still silent.

The zeal to speak is not the same as speaking from God.