I mean what's the point so I can reach out and God can be silent some more? I think I've learned my lesson.
God is always very busy with you, even though you don't know it. When any of us is feeling like God is not communicating with us, it can be He is resisting us because of pride > James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5.
And during what seems silent, God can be preparing what is special and good for us, and we need to be quiet . . . not silent. God is quiet, not silent. He is gentle and kind. And we can find Him in quietness of His love >
"rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God." (1 Peter 3:4)
So, when God seems silent, it can be good to be quiet and prayerful and learn to stay deeply quiet in His peace . . . so we can be ready to be the right way about how He has good planned for us. But we need to be about pleasing Him, not only about pleasing ourselves.
Right. Thank you, people who've heard God speak and move on their lives time and time again can't possibly understand the loneliness I feel.
I offer you what I know from experience > loneliness and boredom are horrible and scary. But they are a trick to make quietness seem like a horrible place, so we do not dare to quiet down and share with God and learn how to stay with Him in His peace. Loneliness is a very cruel and dirty trick to make you feel that being quiet is away from God.
But we enjoy quietness in God's love; God's love makes us more and more immune to fear and torments of fear > 1 John 4:18. And there are other mean and nasty unquiet and anti-quiet things which God's love protects us from, including unforgiveness and frustration and nasty anger and dominating emotional stuff of lusts which drive us to seek pleasure in order to feel relief but without enjoying God and loving one another. So, do not trust what those nasty evil things would have you concluding.
I feel the same because I refuse to believe in a god that's all powerful and just watches people, get hurt and go crazy. Why make someone that can't enjoy a quality life who's mind will only deteriorate? Why?
Any of us humans on our own will deteriorate. We let things and people have power over us, and we let evil decide how we are and how we see things. And with this we get weaker and can break down. So, it is not wise to allow evil and failure to decide what we do and how we see things. God is the solution; so it is a big-time trick to settle for less, no matter how disappointing it is to see people go down.
Jesus went through really bad stuff, and He had hope for us, while He was on the cross. If someone is broken, there is still hope for the person. In this life, there will always be evil which is meant to be an excuse for you to not have hope. But God's love makes us so we grow in hope for any person, at all > love
"hopes all things" (in 1 Corinthians 13:7). So, be glad if people are doing well.
So, I need to not look down on anyone who is having a problem. And in sharing with you I can learn to be more compassionate; so thank you for sharing such personal things with us