THE SILENCE OF THE LAMB

“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.”

(Acts 8:32)

“And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.”

(Matt.27:14)

If ever a person lived that had a right to speak in such a situation as He was, it was Jesus. Lies, lies, and more lies against the only TRUE ONE that ever graced this earth. The wisest Man of time and eternity, who had the wise man of Ecclesiastes pen, “… a time to keep silence, and a time to speak” followed His own teaching. He knew He would ultimately have the last word (Psa. 2:5). God has a way of vindicating His “Silent Lambs” in His time.

The “Lord of our lips” (Psa. 12:4) will teach us when and when not to speak, if allowed to. There is such a thing as getting the last word by silence. One of my wife’s favorite scriptures was the last line in Titus 2:9, “Not answering again, which she was an expert in doing. She, as David of old, had asked her Lord to, “Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips," (Psa. 141:3). I think it wise for us to follow such a Godly example.

“If you can’t take words back, then don’t give them away.”
(rds)