Playing the Quiet Game

Faith is not furniture friendly.

There is a very specific kind of quiet you are expected to have in church. Hands folded. Eyes forward. Thoughts respectful. No sudden movements. Which is funny when you remember most of Jesus’s most famous church moments involved raised voices, overturning tables, and people scrambling for loose change.

John 2 tells us Jesus walks into the temple, sees it turned into a marketplace and immediately chooses violence against furniture. Not people. Furniture. Tables are flipped. Coins go flying. Animals scatter.

He is gentle with sinners and wildly impatient with systems that block people from God. He does not disrupt worship. He restores it.

Which means quiet faith is not always faithful faith.The key difference is motive. Jesus is not loud for attention. He is loud for love. He is not flipping tables because He is angry. He is flipping them because people matter more than profit.

So the next time you are sitting quietly in church try to remember Jesus might be quiet too. Or He might be eyeing the furniture.

Questions for the Week and Strong:

1. Are you being Christlike or just too tired to react?

2. What habit in your life would start sprinting if Jesus walked toward it with a whip?

3. Is your silence spiritual growth or strategic restraint?

This Week in Prayer and Internal Screaming:

Jesus, I am turning the other cheek so hard it hurts my jaw. Please let this count. Amen.