October 11th — AFTER GOD'S SILENCE - WHAT?
October 11th.AFTER GOD'S SILENCE - WHAT?
"When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days in the same place where he was." John 11:6
Has God trusted you with a silence - a silence that is big with meaning? God's silences are His answers. Think of those days of absolute silence in the home at Bethany! Is there anything analogous to those days in your life? Can God trust you like that, or are you stil asking for a visible answer? God wil give you the blessings you ask if you wil not go any further without them; but His silence is the sign that He is bringing you into a marvel ous understanding of Himself. Are you mourning before God because you have not had an audible response? You wil find that God has trusted you in the most intimate way possible, with an absolute silence, not of despair, but of pleasure, because He saw that you could stand a bigger revelation. If God has given you a silence, praise Him, He is bringing you into the great run of His purposes. The manifestation of the answer in time is a matter of God's sovereignty. Time is nothing to God. For a while you said - "I asked God to give me bread, and He gave me a stone." He did not, and to-day you find He gave you the bread of life.
A wonderful thing about God's silence is that the contagion of His stil ness gets into you and you become perfectly confident - "I know God has heard me."
His silence is the proof that He has. As long as you have the idea that God wil bless you in answer to prayer, He wil do it, but He wil never give you the grace of silence. If Jesus Christ is bringing you into the understanding that prayer is for the glorifying of His Father, He wil give you the first sign of His intimacy - silence.