When God Seems Silent: What to do When You Do Not Hear His Voice?
April 3, 2024
(Psalm 22:2) Oh my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
God has Revealed 5 Fundamental Principles: (Knowing God)
1. God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word.
2. God is Lord and King over His world.
3. God is Savior – active to rescue believers from the guilt and power of sin.
4. God is triune – there are within God three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
5. Godliness means responding to God’s revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service.
(Proverbs 1:1-7) The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; 4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, 6 to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
(Romans 12:1-2) I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
(Romans 8:13-16) For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God…
(1 John 5:19-21) We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Where do I look when I can’t hear?
1. Look up. Remember who is God.
2. Look within. Examination and Mortification
3. Look beside you. Comfort and Familiarity and Intimacy
4. Look down. Keep reading the standards, growing in biblical ambition, and looking at the examples.
5. Look around. Seek wisdom from those God has placed in your life.