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Your Question:
Why does God seem so silent when I need Him most?
Answer:
I can relate to feeling like God is silent when I need Him most. As a pastor, I've seen many people struggle with this very issue. It's as if we expect God to speak to us in a loud, booming voice, and when He doesn't, we feel abandoned. But the truth is, God's silence is often His answer. Think of the days of absolute silence in the home at Bethany - it was a sign that God was bringing them into a deeper understanding of Himself. The problem is, we're often more devoted to things and our own convictions than we are to hearing God's voice. We become distracted and irritable with Him, and we forget to listen. As a child of God, my attitude should always be, "Speak, for Your servant hears." But if I haven't developed and nurtured this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God's voice at certain times. At other times, I become deaf to Him. The truth is, God sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow-men do not see, and He desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. His silence is contagious, causing me to become perfectly confident that He has heard me. His stillness is the very proof that He has. I need to learn to trust in His silence, and to know that He is always speaking to me, even when I don't hear Him.
Sources:
my utmost for his highest
oswald chambers
god
j i packer knowing
.from creation to the cross
albert bayliss
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