Pulpit Today

At creation God furnished evidence of His existence. When you turn upward the “heavens declare His glory; night after night they pour forth their speech.”  When you turn inward you hear His voice speak to your heart. Outwardly and inwardly the evidence proclaims, “God is with us.” But do the clouds sometimes darken the radiance of the sky? They do as certainly as divine silence darkens the counsel of the soul. But neither indicates that the sky is without stars or the soul is without God.  It is wrong to assume that God does not exist or is absent when His voice diminishes. In fact, God’s silence upon our life is actually the certainty that He is real and present.

You see, at creation God created man “in His image” and imparted the ability to communicate to Him, and we are only fulfilled as we fellowship with our Creator. That is why it hurts so deeply when the gentle resonance of God’s voice falls silent upon our lives. Yet, there is divine purpose in His reticence to speak. It is the Grace of Silence that actually assures us of God’s imminent presence. Perhaps that seems impossible, but consider this: man does not crave things that do not exist. We do not desire to plunge into the fountain of youth, because there is none. We do not desire to play with unicorns, because they do not exist. But our heart aches so deeply when God is silent because we know He is real and He speaks! And that genuine anguish is a stark reminder that though God is silent, He is present. In fact, a season of God’s silence and our yearning to hear His voice is profound proof that God is very much “with us”!  Remember, God’s silence does not indicate His absence!