When God Seems Silent

Our female team members are doing a weekly study together; here are some points I found interesting in this week's article:

When God Seems Silent
By Veria Gillmor

Silence Is Not Absence
*The hard reality is, some things are best learned in the dark.
*We are never out of God's sight (despite our feelings).
*You have to feel totally accepted and comfortable with someone to sit with a person in silence.

Silence Checks Our Trust Level
*God may decide to take his hand off of the bike, so to speak, to see if we remember what we've learned.
*It's God taking us to the next level building our commitment and perseverance.

Silence Doesn't Mean Nothing's Happening
*Sometimes things buried in us need to surface, but they'll only do so after we sit still long enough to let them break through.
*You pay more attention when you're lost in a wilderness.
*...But God was building my character....

Silence Forces Us to Get Real with God
*...But mostly they loved her, listened to her, and gave her the gift of their presence.
*If a need isn't met, then maybe it wasn't a real need, or something I wasn't supposed to be doing in the first place.