Words Part 3- Silence

    There’s several different types of people. Some people like for things to be silent, it gives

them the chance to think, the chance to breathe. Other people like for things to be loud

because the silence is awkward to them.


When it comes to God being silent, that’s something that none of us like. Our minds immediately let the devil in. We let him take control and cause us to doubt. Why would God ever want to answer someone like me? 


We don’t only dislike God being silent, we also dislike how loud we allow the other voices to speak in our minds. I was with a small group and we were talking about prayer. One of the girls said, “do you ever just have that voice in the back of your mind that says, ‘who are you talking to?’” All of us said yes! 


But, is God really ever silent? I think that we can block out God’s response because we are listening for the answer that we want. God could answer us, but because we aren’t open to His response, we don’t hear Him. 



        God speaks to us in many ways, sometimes God uses other people to speak through. He knows that by hearing it from someone else, we may listen more. When this happens, it usually takes us a bit longer to figure out that it was God talking to us all along. If we think that God is trying to speak to us through another person, we should always test it against scripture because God will never tell us something that goes directly against His word.

God is never silent. I know that there have been times in my life where I questioned God because I felt like He left me to walk alone. I didn’t feel like He heard me, much less, understood me. We have to open our minds to other possibilities than just our agenda. We have to allow God to speak through other people. Sometimes we have to sit in silence and wait for God to speak because we have to recognize that He is always answering us, even if it’s not the way we had hoped. His timing is perfect and He is always present even if it is in silence. 


Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”- John 10:27







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