When You Feel Like God is Silent
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know? Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?” Job 38:4-7 (NIV)
Do you ever feel like if God would just do what you ask for all of your problems would be solved? If only He’d listen and do what I say life would fall into place and I’d flourish and those around me would flourish.
Have you ever prayed for something over and over and over and felt like God was not hearing you because surely if He did, He would have done something about the request?
A form of this is where I found myself on one overwhelming and trying day.
Sometimes I feel like I pray the same prayers day after day returning to my same requests with no answers and more frustration.
Flipping through my Bible I landed in the book of Job. So often while referring to the book of Job we focus on how all was taken away from Job and how bad his life got, but on this day I landed on God talking about being, well… God.
“Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?” Job 38:12-13 (NIV)
What are you dealing with today?
Maybe you’re facing difficult challenges in your marriage and feel like nothing is working out the way you planned. Maybe family conflict has got you feeling overwhelmed with sadness. Maybe finances or health issues or a job situation or a betrayal has got you feeling alone and spinning. God is not surprised by anything. He is our foundation to deal with whatever life throws at us.
“Do you know the law of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?” Job 38:33-37a (NIV)
Whatever you are going through right now, God knows how to fix it. We often think we know how to fix things but more than likely we really don’t. Instead of hoping God will change our situation and asking Him to do what we think needs to happen, trust He has it under control and ask for help to deal with the difficult challenges. Ask for a spirit of trust.
Sometimes we forget how big God is. Sometimes we can ignore how big and how vast and how wide God’s love is for us.
Today this is my prayer for you:
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV)
In this process of trusting God the very thing we are asking God to remove may become our biggest blessing.
Say this with me:
I fully receive God’s love for me.
Say it ten times today.
Fondly,
Lu
Lucille Williams is the author of “From Me to We” and “The Intimacy You Crave: Straight Talk about Sex and Pancakes” check out her books HERE. Subscribe to LuSays today for weekly encouragement.
