Christian Corner—π If God Is Quiet Right Now, This Is Not Abandonment ✝
π If God Is Quiet Right Now, This Is Not Abandonment ✝
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There are seasons when heaven feels quiet in a way that hurts.
Not peaceful quiet.
Not restful quiet.
But the kind of quiet that makes you lean forward inside your own chest — listening for something familiar, listening for reassurance, listening for the sound of being remembered. ☁︎
Prayers feel like they fall inward instead of rising.
Scripture feels thinner in your hands than it used to.
Worship sounds like someone else’s story instead of your own.
And in that space, a question starts forming quietly — not out of rebellion, but out of exhaustion:
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Did I do something wrong?
Did I miss God somehow?
Did I fall out of favor?
Did He move on without me?
The Bible does not shame that question. It keeps it.
David cried,
and God did not strike the words from Scripture. He preserved them — as if to say:
✧ Your ache belongs in My book too.
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What if this silence is not punishment, but closeness too deep for noise?
What if God is not farther away than you can feel — but nearer than your senses can register?
Elijah once waited for God in wind, in earthquake, in fire — but Scripture says the Lord was not in the noise.
He came in a still, quiet whisper. (1 Kings 19:11–12)
The presence of God did not announce itself.
It rested. π―
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We are taught to expect God to arrive with clarity, answers, signs, and sudden relief.
But Scripture often shows Him arriving with endurance, with quiet companionship, with unseen work happening underneath our awareness.
Jesus said a seed must be buried before it ever becomes green.
Roots grow in darkness long before fruit appears in daylight.
So maybe your life is not stalled.
Maybe your faith is not fading.
Maybe your spirit is growing in a place your eyes simply cannot yet see.
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God does not pull away from you because you are tired.
He does not step back because your faith feels thin.
He does not retreat because your nervous system is overwhelmed.
The Psalms say He is close to the brokenhearted — not to the impressive, not to the polished, not to the people who have everything together.
Hebrews records His promise:
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” — Hebrews 13:5
Not “usually.”
Not “if you’re doing well.”
Never.
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What if God is not waiting for you to recover before He draws near — but sitting with you in the middle of what hurts?
What if your numbness has not driven Him away, but drawn Him closer?
What if the quiet you’re living in right now is not distance — but gentleness, because your heart cannot carry loud miracles at the moment?
The psalmist wrote:
“If I make my bed in the depths, You are there.” — Psalm 139:8
Not watching from a distance.
Not calling encouragement from far away.
There.
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Sitting in the dark with you.
Breathing in the same silence.
Holding space while you survive.
You are not forgotten.
You are not being punished.
You are not spiritually defective.
You are not being asked to prove yourself.
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You are being held in a way that does not make noise.
And that kind of presence
is the kind that does not leave.
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To date, this is my favorite writing of yours that I have read. Although everything of yours that I've read is raw and powerful, this one fills my heart with a burning of hope and reassurance that everything works out for my good. That God is not breaking me but rather building me up into who He created me to be. Because we all live in a fallen world that Satan (the God of this world) controls, we get distracted and little by little find ourselves in a dark place. All your writings help to remind me that we are never truly alone in this battle because God has never forsaken or forgotten us. We only need to call on His name. Thank you π π π
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