God doesn’t seem to be listening to me.  He isn’t answering my persistent prayers.  

Is something wrong with my prayer?  Is there some special sin in my life that prevents His answer?  Or is God just capricious? Is He sitting on His big white throne passing judgements on who gets help and who doesn’t? 

We all have prayed for a special answer and there is no answer!

There are seasons in our lives when we are confronted with silence.

Does that mean that God is ignoring us?  Why do we do go through times when we feel like God has placed us in a season of isolation? This is not abandonment.  It is not punishment. 

                                              It’s a divine process. 

David was a shepherd in the wilderness with only his sheep.  He was alone.  Joseph was betrayed and sold into slavery.  He spent years in prison. Even Jesus spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness alone. 

These moments of isolation are not times of despair, but sacred seasons in which God refines, teaches and prepares us for a greater purpose.

When we experience dark days of the soul, somehow God uses these times… this opportunity for us to trust God and know He is orchestrating something better for us.  God refines our heart, chisels away our pride and builds perseverance for the journey ahead.

The quiet often brings clarity and loneliness brings dependence. The waiting cultivates our trust.  As we learn to trust God in the darkness we gain a deeper knowledge of Him.

“Now all discipline seems painful at this moment and not joyful.  But later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it (Heb 12:11)

May we all crave the peaceful fruit of His righteousness as we walk through the valley.  

                                  Trust God in His Stillness