Silence

Maybe God knows that without His silences in our lives, we will never hear the melody of faith.

That was what rang true with me in this chapter. There have been so many times when I have been in a spiritual desert, waiting and yearning for a drop of God's voice, yet hearing nothing.

Silence can be very loud sometimes.

It takes you to the brink of "Does He REALLY care?" long enough for God to step in once again and affirm His love. Only this time, because of the drought you've been experiencing, when He speaks YOU HEAR HIM. His love pelts you with the deluge of rain. You feel Him again! You hear His voice! HE LOVES YOU!

I think of people who live in the mountains amongst some of God's greatest handiwork. The majesty of those peaks is all around them, day after day. Rather than drink in the beauty, people in the region end up taking the mountains for granted. They become complacent, thinking the mountains will always be there. The heights lose their wonder for those who live among them on a daily basis.

I wonder what would happen if the mountains suddenly disappeared? How complacent would the mountain-dwellers be then? Would they long for what they had lost? Would they lament over their own ignorance in taking the gift of beauty for granted?

I see God's periods of silence this way. It reminds us not to take Him for granted. Not to become complacent in our belief that He will always be there.

To wonder at Him all over again.