Silent Treatment?

Psalm 102: 1 - 2     NKJV

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.
Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble

We seem to live in a world where there’s continual noise.

Frankly, watching last night’s Vice Presidential Debate was quite annoying, distracting and noisy for me.

I wonder if lots of noise is something that we’ve just gotten used to?

God forbid that when there’s silence, we might not know how to handle it.

There are times when I ask people to stop for silent prayer during our church service.

Folks move around and fidget, and shift in their seats. Silence makes many of us sort of anxious.

When God is silent towards us, that also makes people pretty uncomfortable.

I mean, why would God speak to some people, and not others?

The truth is, the church doesn’t know how to handle the silent treatment from God.

Job didn’t hear from God for 37 straight chapters, and then God came through in chapter 38.

So is God really silent, or have we on the other hand, tuned Him out?

Maybe because we’ve got way too many distractions in life, we’ve lost the communication signal.

Is it possible that we’ve stopped hearing from God, because we won’t take time to be quiet long enough?

We have to train ourselves to be quiet, so we’re able to listen for His still small voice...