I’ve been thinking about something lately:
Why does God sometimes feel so quiet when we’re genuinely seeking Him?
I know in Scripture there are seasons of “waiting on the Lord,” and even the Psalms are full of, “How long, O Lord?” But emotionally it can feel confusing, like you’re trying to listen through a thick fog.
Someone once told me, “God’s silence isn’t absence; sometimes it’s invitation.”
I’m still chewing on that.
What do you guys think?
Have you ever learned something important in a “quiet season” with God?
I think the first and most important point is that any feeling that God is abcent, silent, distant etc etc is false.
God has promised never to leave us, so our impressions, our feelings are to be subject to the facts of Gods promises.
2nd any remotness of God is not God leaving us, if anything it is us wondering away from God.
3rd you know the poem ‘ Footsreps ‘ a poem about footsteos of God and a person walking along a beach and the person complains that at times when he was in particular trouble there was only one set of prints.
Gods answer was that was when he was carrying him.
It’s a poem, all imagination, but is more accurate than ‘ feelings ‘ of God being not there.
An old puritan once wrote:-
“ If you want extra ordinary experiences of God, enlarge your ordinary devoutions! “
16th centuary language for get more involved in worship and service of God.
One might after reading the Old Testament expect God to direct every aspect of our lives. It can be useful to consider that God dealt with Israel differently than with us individually today. Israel was supposed to receive Jesus as Messiah and the earthly kingdom. Their many rebellions resulted in prophets being sent and corrective measures taken (the Babylonian captivity finally stopped their idolatry).
The period we are in today is covered by the gospel of grace that is individual. We have the complete word of God (the bible) and each other. There would seem little need for God to intervene much in our individual lives.