have you ever had one of those times when you can't feel the spirit... when it feels like God is far away and satan is sitting on the edge of your bed smoking a cigarette.... you don't want to read your bible... you don't want to even look at the church much less go there...
what is that really about? what makes God back up sometimes? what makes the spirit disappear?
I imagine the carnal mind would think that God is mad at you.. I don't know about you, but when I am mad at someone, I pull my "spirit" from them... back up and put distance between us... but what about when you didn't do anything wrong... (or at least you don't know that you did...) and yet the spirit is away...
the silence of God is a rough thing to take... to accept... to acknowledge... Job had God be silent to him for a really long time.. the bible doesn't really give us time lines often so you don't know if it was a few weeks or months... I am thinking years... there was a period in the bible where God was silent for 400 years... can you imagine... how would you live your life if God never spoke to anyone for 1 year much less 400 years... that would mean that the preachers wouldn't get any new revelations...
so what do you do? I think that even in the silent days.. the dark days... you still read your bible.. you continue to pray... you continue to go to church... because I trust that when God is ready... he will talk again... he will let you know that everything is fine... and he really never left you to begin with...
keep on doing right... even in the dark... every day... be encouraged and know that God is present..
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