It was a day where I desperately needed to hear from God. I had been reading my Bible. I had been praying. And I had been worshipping. But I felt far from God, and I did not understand why. I was in a near panic because I was speaking at a retreat in a few weeks, and I NEEDED GOD’S HELP to write my message and then deliver it. This was not a good time for God to seem so far away. I wondered, “God, where are you?”
There are many times when God seems distant. He definitely feels distant when we have done something wrong and we are ashamed of our sin. Just like Eve in the garden of Eden, we hide from God when we have fallen into temptation and done wrong. Also, there are times when we are doing everything right, but it feels like our prayers are hitting a glass ceiling. And then there are other times when it feels like our life is crumbling around us, and we ask in bewilderment, “God, where are you?”
