7Today's Bible Study, Authored by Arthur
Cincotti. 07/17/2022
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The Silence of God
“To You I will Cry, O
LORD my Rock;
Do not be silent to me,
Lest, if You are silent
to me,
I become like those who
go down to the pit” Ps. 28:1
Perhaps the weightiest experience for the believer, and even
for the unbeliever, is to cry out to your God in your moment of deepest need,
only to hear a deafening silence.
For the unbeliever this occurrence is common because, as Ps
115 says, 4. “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of
men’s hands. 6. They have ears, but they do not hear;”
For believers, God
speaks. Our faith is built upon this, for Rom 10:17 says, “faith comes by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
We all have different
manners by which we hear from God.
In Job 33:14, Elihu is speaking,
“For God may speak in one way, or in another; Yet man does not perceive it;
In a dream, in a vision of the night…”
Some ascribe to the “still
small voice” of I Kg. 19:12
But when that conduit of
communication is closed, we ache, and only
our hurt is amplified.
Habakkuk longed for an
answer concerning the times he lived in. Hab. 1:1 God answered him, but it was
not what he expected.
Some pine for a rhama
word from God so desperately that they will turn to false prophets. See Jer.
27:16, and 29:8
Also consider King Saul turning to the witch of En Dor I Sam. 28:6
There is the preacher on
Saturday night, the parent by the bed of a sick child, the perplexed individual
with two paths before them, or the person in mental or physical anguish who longs
for relief.
As New Testament
believers, we have the Logos; the written Word of God, preserved for us and
available to us.
Colin Smith likes to
say, “If you want to hear from God, read your
Bible. If you want an audible voice, read your Bible out loud.”
Heb. 1:1,2 says, “God,
who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by
the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…”
In the Bible we can find
a principle to speak to any of life’s vexations. Often times the painful
answer, though, is “wait”.
God is not obligated to
answer every question that we consider pressing. We should say, “I rejoice
at Your word s one who finds great treasure.” Ps 119:162
vr. 82, “My eyes fail
from searching Your word, Saying, ‘When will You comfort me?”’
Jesus experienced the
silence of God the Father on the cross.
Just prior to his
execution He (the Godman) was silent before His accuser. Jn. 19:9, as foretold
in Is. 53:7, “He opened not His mouth.”
As we walk out this
pilgrimage in space and time, we often long to know in advance how something
will work out. But we do know ultimately how all things work out. And we
also know, temporally that, “all things work together for good to those who
love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Rom. 8:28
In Rev. 8:1 God is
silent for half an hour, and then the seven trumpets sound. Judgment is at hand
for a world that has rejected their Creator.
Andrew Peterson wrote a song about the silence of God.
It’s enough to drive a
man crazy; ...and He’s
knelling
it’ll break a man’s
faith in
the garden
It’s enough to make him
wonder as silent as a
stone;
if he’s ever been sane… all His
friends are sleeping
and
He’s weeping all alone.
...when he’s bleating
for comfort
from Thy staff and Thy
rod; And the Man
of all Sorrows,
and the heavens’ only
answer He never
forgot
is the silence of God. What
sorrow is carried
by
the hearts
And it’ll shake a man’s
timbers that He
bought.
when he loses his heart,
when he has to remember So when the
what broke him apart. questions
dissolve
into
the silence of God...
This yoke may be easy
but this burden is not ...the
aching may remain,
when the crying fields
are frozen but the breaking
does not...
by the silence of God.
...the
aching may remain
And if a man has got to
listen but the
breaking does not...
to the voices of the mob
who are reeling in the
throes ...in the
holy,
of all the happiness
they’ve got lonesome
echo
of
the silence of God.
When they tell you
all their troubles
have been nailed up
to that cross
...What about the times
when even followers get
lost?
‘Cause we all get lost
sometimes.
There’s a statue of
Jesus
on a monastery knoll
in the hills of Kentucky
all quiet and cold…
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