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Feb 12, 2024 · Charnock suggests that to sin is to secretly desire the nonexistence of God. Thus, it should not be surprising that we experience a deep sense of the absence of God if we live in unconfessed sin. For this form of divine hiddenness, the appropriate remedy is the confession of sin and turning back to God. Modern existentialism has turned this ...
Oct 10, 2024 · We must be actively engaged in our relationship with Him, or we risk becoming numb to His voice and blind to His ways. When God’s presence is absent, it becomes all too easy to follow the desires of our flesh rather than the leading of the Holy Spirit. Anxiety and Fear Take Hold. Another significant consequence of God’s absence in our lives ...
Sep 25, 2024 · Chasidic masters offer a profound reinterpretation: God’s absence is a divine invitation—calling those who are willing to seek God out, to forge a deeper connection. Rabbi. David Wolpe. Cite. Categories: Vayeilech. A rabbi once came upon a child who was crying. He asked the child what was wrong, and the child answered: “I was hiding, and ...
Jul 1, 2023 · But God isn’t nature, Frank. It makes sense that we should feel a deep connection to nature because God created us, and God created nature. ... There is no escaping the apparent absence of our ...
- Jeremiah 11:14 – God Stops Listening to Prayers
- <>Ezekiel 5:11 – God Leaves The Temple
- Psalm 13:1 – God Hides His Face
- Romans 8:23 – Groaning For The Future
- John 16:7 – Jesus’ Absence Is Good
“Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayeron their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.” Israel has fallen into paganism, idolatry and rampant polytheism. In his anger, God rightly says that, “the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but...
“Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.” The temple was the one place God had chosen to dwell with the people of Israel. But Israel broke their covenant with God due to their sin and idolatry. Therefore, God...
“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” David, the Psalmist, is going through a season of feeling far from God. He depicts his feeling of God’s absence as God forgetting him and hiding his face. While it is impossible for God to forget anything, David felt forgotten by God. This expression refers to...
“And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” Paul describes Christians as those who groan, aching for the future. They have been given the Spirit, but the Spirit points them to something they don’t yet have. The presence o...
“I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.” For the last several chapters of John, Jesus has been trying to comfort his disciples. They are confused and afraid because Jesus has told them he is going away. Yet, it is to the disciple’s ...
And you must, in that sense, turn away from your sense of God’s absence to His promise: “You draw near to Me, and whether you feel it or not, I will draw near to you.” I think most of us begin to discover that as we are drawn out of ourselves to God’s promise, we are re-stabilized to become more sensitive to the fact that He really is with us.
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Aug 24, 2023 · And you must, in that sense, turn away from your sense of God’s absence to His promise: “You draw near to Me, and whether you feel it or not, I will draw near to you.” And I think most of us begin to discover, as we are drawn out of ourselves to that promise, we are re-stabilized to become more sensitive to the fact that He really is with us.
