By way of commenting on yesterday’s I Don’t Let Go; I Don’t Let God, a reader named Claudia wrote in to ask:
What I really want to know is: If you do ask Him something, does He answer? I’m not talking big-special-effects-budget, voice-from-the-sky type of answer. Someone once described it as ‘a still small voice’ (and yes, I do know that comes out of the Bible). Really? Is God really there, and does He really answer, even if only in your own heart/mind? The possibility is astounding to me.”
First, Claudia, thanks for your respectful capital H’s. It’s easy enough for non-Christians to deride Christians (as in this typically obnoxious comment from yesterday), so … way to be nice!
Secondly: Yes! Be astounded! Because without the slightest equivocation I can say that God does indeed answer any and every question I ever ask of him. And His answers are always extremely clear—it’s never a waffling, open-to-interpretation sort of deal; it’s always a very firm, very clear directive. Half the time, it’s an answer I hadn’t even considered before that then seems so obvious it’s practically embarrassing.
One weird/great thing is that God’s answers to my questions always come immediately, too. I’m forever going, “Dear God. I’ve got this problem. You see, I—oh! Cool! Thanks!”
I once wrote a bit more deeply about how God answers questions via my post When God Makes 2 + 2 = 5.
I don’t know if it’s true for you, but I know that for a lot of non-Christians, “God answers my questions,” sounds just like, “I’m a delusional dink.” All I can ever say to that is … whatever. Turning to God for critical input works like (literally) nothing in this world. In that very important sense God is as real as the computer I’m using and the chair I’m sitting on. The fact that God so invariably, clearly, and immediately answers my most difficult questions is, in fact, one of the great and enduring ways that he regularly lets me know just how very, very real he is.
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I truley think God is not hearing me ..I have asked him a question for quite some time now and I just don’t hear an answer or see anything changing to let me see he is talking to me , maybe I am unsignificant to him , I didn’t used to think this way but now the more I am in more emotional and physical pain I can’t understand his purpose for me is to let me suffer my whole existance on this planet ?? why does he feel the need to punish me from birth with people who do not care for me ?? mother ,family , spouse ??? the only unconditional love I get is from my dog and I think he only does it cause he’s hungry…….why does God let some suffer their whole lives while others do nothing but hurt people and break laws and are happy …and don’t tell me that is not God its Saten cause I think that is a cop out …
Hi Lisa, while I believe that God hears everything, I won’t claim to have the exact right answers for your very important and very understandable questions. The questions you raise here are questions, I believe, every thoughtful person has asked at one time or another. I know I sure have, and more than once.
Sometimes I’ve demanded these answers from God in broken-down, abject grief and rage. Sometimes answers have come through other people (angels in human costume!), sometimes I’ve had to patiently wait, sometimes I needed a good night’s rest to start again.
What I can tell you for sure is that there are people that are listening to you, and that what you’re saying matters. You are not insignificant, even when you feel that you are. I wish that you felt the love in this very moment that you are searching for, and that you’d always know that love never fails. If you cannot feel it tonight, or believe it is inexhaustibly eternal for you, then I will hold that space for you in this moment. If you can’t hear God tonight, hear another person that cares. Be well.
God does answer questions!! He answered my question, through a dream. Before I went to sleep I asked very specifically for an answer. Be very specific about what your asking for. Here’s the MOST important part. I can’t emphasize this enough! Acknowledge God during your prayers, tell him that you TRUST Him, and BELIEVE it in your heart. I can’t promise that he will answer it that night, but he will give you answers. For me, it wasn’t the answer that I was looking for but he explained a lot to me through my dream. The COOLEST part, was that I asked and He answered!
If anyone needs help, or want to know more feel free to ask. God Blesses
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