The Silence Wasn’t Abandonment—It Was an Invitation

I was searching desperately for answers.

Where am I heading?

Where am I supposed to be?

How am I contributing to His kingdom?

In my heart, I believed that God always spoke through others — through His Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers.

So I looked all around me at all of the prophets I ever encountered, waiting for a word, a sign, a direction.

But nothing was ever given to me.

No prophecy found me.

No pastor pointed me toward the path I needed to take.

I grew frustrated over time. Maybe even a little lost and tired.

It felt like all the truths and promises I had ever heard were swirling somewhere above my head, out of reach. I couldn’t even grab hold of it, let alone understand it.

Then...God spoke.

In the quiet of my room on a day that felt uneventful and insignificant.

He spoke, not through someone else, but directly to me.

In the words of Jeremiah 2:13–19 (NIV):

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted. Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skull. Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way? Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? And why go to Assyriato drink water from the Euphrates? Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,”declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty."

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Suddenly, I understood it clearly.

I had been running in circles — frantic and aimless — searching for answers everywhere except the one place they truly were.

Why was I looking for water when I had access to the spring of living water?

Maybe that’s you right now.

Maybe you feel overlooked — like the answers keep missing you, like God is speaking to everyone else but you.

What if God wants to speak to you directly?

What if the silence around you is an invitation?

An invitation to get quiet.

To be still.

To come into His presence and listen.

Sometimes, the reason the answers aren’t coming through others…is because God wants to be the one to speak to you Himself.

All you need to do is be silent. Listen. And know Him.

“Be still, and know that I am God.”—Psalm 46:10

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