All of us have decisions to make.

Life is full of crossroads, and we need divine direction.

Which way do I go?

Join us as we study God's Word today with Scott Polack.

Have you ever tried to spend a day in utter silence? No noise, no talking. You know, we love to talk, don't we? And we live in a very loud world. And there's lots of noise. I think we're

missing something because we have so little silence. You remember that God said, be still and know

that I am God. We fill every waking moment with noise. Maybe it's because we're afraid of what

we'll hear in the silence. Maybe we're

afraid of actually hearing God's voice and having to ponder things and really take a long look at

ourselves. We're in Joshua chapter 6 and we're on a journey round and round in circles with

the children of Israel going about the walls of Jericho. And we're learning some

lessons. God has to teach all of us as he is leading us into his will and his way for us. We've

learned the lesson of sight to look to him. We've learned the lesson of strength. The strength is in

his presence, not in our resources. But now we come to a most unusual lesson. I'm calling it the lesson

of silence. Because one of God's instructions to Joshua and to his people is that as they

walked around the city walls, they were not allowed to talk. Listen to verse 10. And Joshua had

commanded the people saying, ye shall not shout, nor make any noise

with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I bid you shout.

Then shall you shout. Now, they're going to shout at the end. We're coming to that. There's

going to be a moment to speak, but for now, they're not allowed to speak. I'm thinking of Ecclesiases chapter 3 and verse number

7. The Bible says there's a time for everything and there's a time to speak and there's a time to be

silent. Well, this is the time to be silent. Sometimes I think we spend more time speaking than we do in silence. Maybe that's why

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