GOD, Do You Hear Me?

I wonder how many of us have cried out to God during our deepest times of despair?

You know the kind. The kind where there is a wailing that is pushed out for the deepest part of your soul. From the terrorizing anguish of your heart. You cry...you pray...you hope.

Nothing.

Silence.

Crickets.

You hear not a word.

You feel hopeless...disappointed....distraught.

You're not alone. We have all been there at one time or another. Where life just seems too much to bear and you have nowhere to turn.

Beloved, do not be deceived by the silence. He is there...

Listening.

Watching.

Waiting.

He is speaking to you. Yes, even through the silence. Albeit through the crashing waves of the sea, through the birds tending to their chicks in their nest, or through the cool breeze brushing through your hair - as if to whisper...

"Everything is going to be all right."

Do not mistake His silence for rejection. Nor His delay for abandonment. Even in your despair, He is preparing you...arming you. For something greater. Something bigger. Something extraordinary.

Esther waited 13 years to become the Queen that would save the Jewish nation.

David waited 15 years to become the King of Israel.

Jesus waited 30 years to begin his ministry and become the KING of God's chosen people.

So do not lose heart beloved. His ear is attentive towards you...it is not all for not. He knows the plans He has for you. He is listening, He is watching, He is waiting...to perform the perfect destiny purposed for you and through you.