"The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."
— Lamentações 3:25-26
We live in a world that cannot tolerate silence. We expect immediate answers, clear signs, quick confirmations that God is hearing our prayers. When silence arrives—that anguishing void where we expected a voice—we wonder if we have been abandoned. But what if God's silence were actually a harbinger of something greater than we imagined?
The prophet Jeremiah wrote Lamentations in the midst of Jerusalem's total destruction. Everything had collapsed. The temple burned, the people were exiled, and God seemed completely absent. In this devastating context, Jeremiah does not deny the pain—he expresses it with brutal honesty—but he discovers something precious: the truth that God remains good, even when He does not speak. This is a different kind of faith. It is not the faith of visible miracles or audible answers. It is faith that persists in darkness because it knows the character of the One being sought.
When God is silent, He is not absent; He is working in us in ways that our voices could not interrupt. Silence is God's workshop. It is there that He refines our faith like gold in fire, where He removes the impurities of religious superficiality and transforms us into people who love Him not for what we receive, but for who He is. Silent waiting builds depth. It teaches us that we are not children demanding gifts, but children yearning for the Father.
Today, if you are in silence waiting for an answer, allow yourself to be there without despair. Do not interpret the absence of a voice as the absence of presence. Use this time to deepen your intimacy with God through prayer, meditation on His Word, deliberate trust. Ask yourself: am I seeking God or only His blessings? An honest answer to this question will transform how you experience silence.
Silence is not punishment; it is an invitation. An invitation to a more mature, more genuine, deeper relationship with the Father. And when He finally speaks—and He will speak—you will have developed ears trained to recognize His voice amid all the noise of the world. Trust. Wait. He is good.