Mark 15:33-41 Making Room for the Silence of God

What is happening when God gives you the silent treatment?

Where is God? When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be -- or so it feels -- welcomed with open arms. But to go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become.... What can this mean? Why is God so present to us in our time of prosperity and so very absent a help in times of trouble? - C.S. Lewis

Trusting God even when we do not feel Him.

Do I worship God or do I worship my experience of God?

Even though it seems that God is silent, He is working powerfully in these moments

Stages of Intimate Relationships illusion disillusion confusion resolution (despair or deep intimacy)

The test of authentic love is how do you act when you don’t feel loving.

I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even when I am alone. I believe in God, even when he is silent.

Even though you feel alone, God has positioned others to watch with you

Into your hands I commit my spirit