Perceiving God's Speaking
I’ve been through seasons in my life where God was silent and have often taught about it, but recently, God has been teaching me about how we sometimes think He is silent when it is actually us who are failing to perceive His speaking. In Job 33, Elihu speaks these words to Job: “Why do you complain to him that he answers none of man’s words? For God does speak – now one way, now another – though man may not perceive it” (Job 33:13-14). Elihu says this to Job because earlier Job complained saying: “I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer” (Job 30:20). Job was convinced that God was not paying him any attention, but Elihu helps him understand that God does speak, it is us who sometimes fail to discern that He is speaking. Elihu goes on to describe the various ways in which God speaks: through dreams and visions (Job 33:15), through an audible voice (Job 33:16) and also through suffering (Job 33:19). God might not have been communicating to Job through words or visions as we us