If you’re a follower of Jesus, you’ve had those moments when you desperately wanted God to speak, but what came back felt like deafening silence. Those moments can make it feel like life, and even your faith, is starting to unravel. It can be a diagnosis, betrayal, a child making destructive choices, and you feel powerless to stop them. It can be a marriage hanging by a thread, a financial situation you can’t fix. A temptation you thought you were past suddenly coming back stronger than ever. So you do what Christians are supposed to do, right? You open your Bible. You pray for wisdom, direction, clarity… for God to make the next step obvious. But instead of clarity, instead of direction, you get what feels like silence from Heaven. That kind of silence can mess with you. It can make strong people weak, confident people anxious, and faithful people start asking dangerous questions: Did I do something wrong? Is God disappointed in me? Is He testing me? Or worse, has God cut me off or forgotten me? Are you even there Lord? In those moments, there’s a powerful opportunity for faith to be exposed, strengthened, and even deepened. Because what you do in that silence reveals more about your heart than almost anything else in your life. Do you run to God… or do you start looking somewhere else? Saul, sadly & not surprisingly, looked somewhere else.
