At the Right Moment!

And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night (Genesis 26:24).

"Appeared the same night," the night on which he went to Beer-sheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could have happened on any other night as well as this? If so, you are grievously mistaken. Why did it come to Isaac in the night on which he reached Beer-sheba? Because that was the night on which he reached rest.

In his old locality, he had been tormented. There had been a whole series of petty quarrels about the possession of paltry wells. There are no worries like little worries, particularly if there is an accumulation of them. Isaac felt this. Even after the strife was past, the place retained a disagreeable association. He determined to leave. He sought change of scene. He pitched his tent away from the place of former strife. That very night the revelation came. God spoke when there was no inward storm. He could not speak when the mind was fretted; His voice demands the silence of the soul. Only in the hush of the spirit could Isaac hear the garments of his God sweep by. His still night was his starry night.

My soul, hast thou pondered these words, "Be still, and know"? In the hour of perturbation, thou canst not hear the answer to thy prayers. How often has the answer seemed to come long after the heart got no response in the moment of its crying -- in its thunder, its earthquake, and its fire. But when the crying ceased, when the stillness fell, when thy hand desisted from knocking on the iron gate, when the interest of other lives broke the tragedy of thine own, then appeared the long-delayed reply. Thou must rest, O soul, if thou wouldst have thy heart's desire. Still the beating of thy pulse of personal care. Hide thy tempest of individual trouble behind the altar of a common tribulation and, that same night, the Lord shall appear to thee. The rainbow shall span the place of the subsiding flood, and in thy stillness thou shalt hear the everlasting music.
--George Kathy Matheson Thompson

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How often have you fervently cried out to God in the midst of agony and there came not an answer in that moment? How many of you have found yourself in a place in which the incessant and pernicious attacks of the enemy have began to wear on the chords of your soul? I have been in that place where the silence from God in the midst of my suffering was deafening. It was as if He was screaming you are on your own, figure it out; however, I have learned that in that silence God is not aloof. It is in the silence of your troubles that God is closest. He is moving in the undercurrents of your struggles, maneuvering and managing all that is transpiring. He is rearranging the elements of your mess to empower your mission.

Dr. Rick Wallace

God has promised never to leave nor forsake you and He wants you to know that His silence is never indicative of His absence. He is always nearby.

Your prayers and your cries are heard and felt by the Lord. The squeezing by your troubles my be painful, they may at times take your breath away, but understand the the great I AM is always in control and at the right moment he will speak. At the right moment he will settle your spirit. At the right moment he will bring healing. At the right moment he will make His peace be still proclamation. At the right moment he will move in establish your footing and decree your position.

God hears, God sees, and God knows! ~ Dr. Rick Wallace