True or false?
There have been times in our lives when God has "long been silent", not because He had nothing to say to us, but because we were not in the mood to listen. The Bible, while sitting on the bookshelf, had little ability to either inspire or restore.
Similarly, when we fear what unbelievers many think or say and thus remove God entirely from our conversations at work or school, or with our neighbours and family, we act falsely to God, and deny others the opportunity to be inspired through us. By bearing witness to the blessings of God we have experienced in our own lives, we influence others to "remember" Him and to ponder the blessedness of having God in their own hearts.
Acts 4:20
For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.
Isaiah 57:11
Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither remembered me, nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
Stops & Steps 1786 02Sep2011