Greetings Dear Reader,
After the captivity, we move into a time of “silence” with the Father. Gone are the prophets, fiery pillars, and parted waters. What remains are the promises both from the Father and from his people.
Joshua ends with the people vowing to keep the Law. Every chapter of Judges sees them fail and return to those promises. When they ask for a king to be like other nations, they abandon their promise and eventually destroy themselves. After the kingdom divides, they return from captivity, cured of their outward faithlessness but pursue a path of dead orthodoxy to the Law. They forget that they have promised to love the Father with all that they are.
The Father, however, forgets none of his promises. He is faithful to them. Even when Rome arrives, he keeps them from being wiped out or assimilated like so many other nations. Those silent years see the temple rebuilt and even though they are an occupied country, they still have the Father’s promises. Even though he seems to be silent, God is moving the pieces to provide even more.
All that he has already done is not enough for his people. They still refuse to love the Father. There are those who do but the priests and politicians of the day are serving themselves instead of God. When the Father seems to be silent, his past actions should be enough. Instead. we look for signs and blame the Father when they are not there. We proclaim loudly that all he has done is not good enough for them to love him.
Elijah reminds us that the Father speaks with a still small voice. We want to see the fireworks when even in the silence the Father is calling to us. We are required to love him. Instead, we use silence as an excuse to reject him. I must not do this. I have to love the Father first because that is what he does with me. I have to hold onto faith because that is how he wishes for me to related to him. In doing that, I have heard the still, small voice. I have seen him move to meet my needs and care for my sorrows.
He is there. He is always waiting for me to seek him out of love for him. He knows that silence will not always be enough. After 400 years of it, he prepares to speak again. The words will come and they will be direct and clear. His actions were not enough. His silence was not enough. So, even though it should not be necessary, there will be more.
The Silence of God – Michael Card
It's enough to drive a man crazy; it'll
break a man's faith
It's enough to make him wonder if he's ever been sane
When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod
And the heavens’ only answer is the silence of God
It'll shake a man's timbers when he
loses his heart
When he has to remember what broke him apart
This yoke may be easy, but this burden is not
When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God
But when you have to listen to the
voices of the mob
Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got
When they tell you all their troubles have been nailed up to that cross
Then what about the times when even followers get lost?
'Cause we all get lost sometimes
There's a statue of Jesus on a
monastery knoll
In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold
And He's kneeling in the garden, as silent as a stone
All His friends are sleeping and He's weeping all alone
And the man of all sorrows, he never
forgot
What sorrow is carried by the hearts that he bought
So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God
The aching may remain, but the breaking does not
The aching may remain, but the breaking does not
In the holy, lonesome echo of the silence of God
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become
a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally
hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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