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He Is There and He Is Not Silent

by jesuskrazy

I got this title from Francis Schaeffer's landmark book of the same name. One of the hardest things to deal with is when it appears that God is silent when all hell is breaking loose in your life. I have had enough of these to know better than to doubt God but I cave in to mistrust, a bad temper, and terminal impatience more often than I'm comfortable admitting.

It's such as these when the great doctrines of sovereignty taste like sawdust and my prayers get reduced to, "Dear God, what the hell is goin' on." 

Once, I was griping away in the midst of a crisis, dropping more f-bombs than Eminem. And you know what God did? He gave me........a song," Praise the Lord" by the Imperials and more recently Jonathan Pierce." I cried and shut my mouth in repentant shame.

A sampling of the lyrics:

When you're up against a struggle

That shatters all your dreams 

And your hopes have been cruelly crushed 

By Satan's manifested scheme 

And you feel the urge within you 

To submit to earthly fear 

Don't let the faith you're standing in 

Seem to disappear 

Praise the Lord 

He can work through those who praise 

Him Praise the Lord 

For our God inhabits praise 

Praise the Lord 

For the chains that seem to bind you 

Serve only to remind you that they drop 

Powerless behind you when you praise 

Him All is well and all is well

about the author 

jesuskrazy loves jesus and strives to practice what jesus preached and taught as she preaches and teaches to others....and she doesn't beg for money or sell holy water...