Getting Through What You are Going
Through
When
God is Silent
Memory
Verse: “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.” (Psalm 28:1,
NKJV)
Text: Psalm
77:1–20
Introduction: Psalm 55:6; 28:1; 22:1–2
C.S. Lewis said “though our feelings come and go, God’s love
for us does not.”
“No
one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the
sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same
restlessness . . . On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin
tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and
honest . . .”—C.S. Lewis
“Meanwhile,
where is God? . . . When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of
needing Him . . . if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and
praise, you will be — or so it feels — welcomed with open arms. But go to Him
when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find?
A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the
inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait,
the more emphatic the silence will become . . .
Why
is He so present a commander in our time of prosperity and so very absent a
help in time of trouble?”—C.S.
Lewis
1.
Can You Relate to Joseph’s Experience?
Genesis 39:6-9; 40:7–8, 23; 41:1–8, 15-16.
2.
What To Do When It Seems God is Silent?
First,
change your cognitive reasoning about God’s perceived silence.
Proverbs
23:7
“God’s
silence is in no way indicative of His activity or involvement in our lives. He
may be silent, but He is not still.”
--Charles Stanley
Second,
Trust God.
Isaiah
55:8; Proverbs 3:5–6; Genesis 39:2, 21;
Psalm 46:10; 138:8
Third,
Wait on the Lord.
Psalm 27:14; 62:1–2; 62:5;
25:1–3, 20–21; 37:7
Fourth, be
Strengthened in the Lord.
1 Samuel
30:6
Fifth, Be Willing to Inquire from
the Lord.
Matthew
27:46
Sixth, Know that God is in
Control. Romans
8:28
IN HIS TIME, IN HIS TIME
HE MAKES ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME
LORD, PLEASE SHOW ME EVERYDAY
AS YOU'RE TEACHING ME YOUR WAY
AND I'LL DO JUST WHAT YOU SAY
IN YOUR TIME.
HE MAKES ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME
LORD, PLEASE SHOW ME EVERYDAY
AS YOU'RE TEACHING ME YOUR WAY
AND I'LL DO JUST WHAT YOU SAY
IN YOUR TIME.
