Yehovah's silence (Psalm 28)

In verse 1, the psalmist asked God not to respond silently. For us, who are used to being answered when we speak, when we speak to God, we want him to respond to us in the same way. But when He remains silent, how difficult is it! At that moment, frustration, fear, despair arrives and the seconds seem eternal. This is because we have not understood that it is when He is most talking to us. It is there, when He wants us to put into practice what He has already taught us. He stops, to see how we act, he lets us work.

It is like when someone studies a career, then they have to do a practice. During this practice the teacher is no longer giving classes or teaching by our side physically, because the learning time has passed. Learning time is as important as practice time. If we do not pass the practice, we do not graduate and we have to review the theory again.

I am sure that when Yeshua was taken into the desert, his father remained silent on each trial. And no matter how much love He felt for his son, and no matter how much He wanted to intervene and help him, He knew it was not the right thing to do. God knew that he had to let his son put into practice everything that he had taught him. Yeshua had the ability to emerge victorious from the desert.

It is amazing that in this psalm, the Hebrew word for "silence" is "charash" (2790) which means, among many things, to practice in silence, be still, create, keep the peace. What does this mean? That, contrary to all the negative emotions that come when we face the "silence of God", it is the best time to be. Why? Because it is there where He is creating, it is there where He is imagining the final product, what will come out of that time where we will put into practice what we have learned. I imagine God sitting on his throne with a bag of "popcorn" looking at us with emotion because we are in the final stretch of a process where we have a guaranteed victory. I really like "popcorn" and I really imagined God sitting in the stands as if he were watching a game of "soccer", which is in the last minutes and only needs his team, which he coached, to score the goal that will give them the victory. 😂

God tells us today that, if we are going through a moment where it seems that He is silent, it is not so, it is when He is speaking loudest. He is telling us that he put within us what we need to overcome. He is telling us to act, because within us is His power. He is telling us that, during the learning time, he gave us the key that opens the door to the abundant life that He has for us. We just have to trust.

In verse 7, the psalmist said that because his heart trusted Yehovah, he was helped. To trust is to be sure of someone's integrity and worth. It means being firm in what has been said to you. The psalmist was sure of who Yehovah was and what he represented in his life and that was why he was helped.

It is time for us to transition from believing to trusting and we will be helped and rescued. Let us decide today to act according to what God has already taught us; and when we enter the "silence of God" again, let us rejoice, because it is the graduation, it is the sign that victory is near. 

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