The Theology of Boredom

When nothing is happening, everything is forming

Boredom has terrible PR.

People treat it like a spiritual dead zone.

As if silence means nothing is moving.

As if stillness means God is off duty.

But boredom is not emptiness.

Boredom is incubation.

Think about it.

Every seed spends most of its life under dirt.

Unseen.

Uncelebrated.

Unclapped for.

Yet everything essential is happening beneath the surface.

Boredom is where God turns raw material into revelation.

Soul Esteem teaches you to stop panicking when your life is quiet.

Quiet is not punishment. Quiet is preparation.

Boredom does not mean God is ignoring you.

It means He trusts you with the discipline of becoming formed without applause.

If you let Him, boredom becomes the classroom where you learn to:

• hear God without noise competing

• think without rushing

• feel without performing

• grow without broadcasting

Most people flee boredom because they do not know how to sit with themselves.

But the spiritually maturing learn this:

If you cannot sit still with you, you will never walk confidently with Him.

Do not despise the season where nothing dramatic is happening.

The unseen is often the holiest work.

~Jackie

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