“GOD!  SAY SOMETHING!  Where are YOU!!!”

Silence.  Where has he gone?  Did he abandon you? us?  Was He really ever there in the first place?

“WHERE ARE YOU GOD!?!”

And our prayers bounce against the ceiling of the room.  Nothing.  Nothing comes.  No heavenly hug.  No peaceful feeling.  No spiritual tug to say “I’m here child.”  Nothing.  The lush green fields of spiritual communion are gone leaving  the dryness of memories of what once was.

“God?  Are you there?  Do you hear?  Do you care what I’m going through?”

What kind of God leaves us in the middle of our battle?  What kind of God becomes the deaf blind mute we can’t understand and who can’t seem to communicate with us?

That’s how it feels, doesn’t it?  That’s how life appears to be when God goes silent.  But, it’s not the TRUTH.  Take a moment and think about this.

Have you thought maybe this period of God’s silence is a time of cleansing?  A time of growth?  A time of blessing?

“Wait a minute!  God’s silence a time of blessing?  No Way!  I HATE IT!  I want HIM not this cold desert of nothing!”

Really?

Why do we REALLY get scared when we can’t “experience” God?  What makes us wonder if all that we’ve been through and all that He’s shown us and told us was just a figment of our active imagination?  Could there be another reason?

Let me ask you this.

Are we really wanting Him or are we wanting the “feeling” of His closeness?  Are we truly searching for Him or for a warm fuzzy hug that says, “You’re safe.  I’ve got you.  Go on, you’re okay.”

We SAY we want Him, but our actions scream more like a toddler lost in a store wondering where their mommy has gone.

Could it be that God is letting us experience His silence, so we can be purged of our need for feelings to reassure us and instead begin to truly rely on our faith.

Hebrews 11:6 says, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

We can’t please Him unless we have faith, but we can’t have faith unless we experience the pool of life without our emotional floaties on.  It’s not that He’s left us, He’s just letting us swim learning to trust He’s watching and waiting to assist us should we get in trouble.

Without God’s silence how will we be able to truly please Him if we are more in love with how He makes us feel than with the giver of the feeling?

When you are in the silence of God, remember this:

All Teachers are silent when their students are taking a test.

Be patient.  Continue on the path He showed you.  Trust in Him and thank Him for loving you enough to grow your faith so that you may bring Him more pleasure and joy.  Enjoy His silence and rejoice in the growing of your faith and the pruning of your feelings.

-rpierce1373