When He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days
in the place where He was John 11:6
Has God trusted you with His silence— a silence that has
great meaning?
God’s silences are actually His answers. Just think of those
days of absolute silence in the home at Bethany! Is there
anything comparable to those days in your life?
Can God trust you like that, or are you still asking Him for
a visible answer?
God will give you the very blessings you ask if you refuse
to go any further without them, but His silence is the sign
that He is bringing you into an even more wonderful
understanding of Himself.
Are you mourning before God because you have not had an
audible response?
When you cannot hear God, you will find that He has trusted
you in the most intimate way possible— with absolute
silence, not a silence of despair, but one of pleasure,
because He saw that you could withstand an even bigger
revelation. If God has given you a silence, then praise Him—
He is bringing you into the mainstream of His purposes. The
actual evidence of the answer in time is simply a matter of
God’s sovereignty. Time is nothing to God. For a while you
may have said, "I asked God to give me bread, but He gave me
a stone instead" Matthew 7:9 . He did not give you a stone,
and today you find that He gave you the "bread of life" (
John 6:35 ).
A wonderful thing about God’s silence is that His stillness
is contagious— it gets into you, causing you to become
perfectly confident so that you can honestly say, "I know
that God has heard me." His silence is the very proof that
He has. As long as you have the idea that God will always
bless you in answer to prayer, He will do it, but He will
never give you the grace of His silence. If Jesus Christ is
bringing you into the understanding that prayer is for the
glorifying of His Father, then He will give you the first
sign of His intimacy— silence.
