I can’t help this feeling I’ve been having for over the last eighteen years that there definitely has been some sort of paradigm shift; a transformation that everyone at one point in time started preaching, and  prophesying about and it didn’t matter what faith-based system of belief they belong to. Some proclaim that it was a positive change and to others, it was the worst.

It has been for centuries the prediction of the world’s end, but yet no end is in sight, to me it’s just the change of the systems of how things worked in the world. The bible does say world without end. (Ephesian 3:21) 1 John 15:15-17 It says that we should not love the world and the things of the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. You see, Jesus’ death started (I proclaimed started because evil still abound) the conquering of the prince of darkness of this world, giving us believers the abilities needed to be overcomers of the devil’s temptations through the aid of the Holy ghost. We have the unction from the Holy ghost that we know all things, especially the truth, God’s truth.

The prophesy is that we are in the season of God’s silence. We were told in Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God.” And Psalm 27:1 “The Lord is my light and salvation; who shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; who shall I be afraid? In both these Psalm we are being told to have faith in God; no matter what the circumstances is in our lives he’s got our back and he’s in control. In this season, we are being tested and tried in His silence. But there is a quietness and a stillness even though it seems like everything else being heard is so loud and moving very fast.

Think of this for a moment what is God silence? when righteousness got forsaken for unrighteousness and a person having morals is outcast, as 2 Corinthians 6:14 says, “Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness? it has became the norms, that no one is striking these things down immediately. There was a time it was said, you reap what you sew, if you do good, then good shall follow you, you work hard and then you get rewarded for your work. Today is like you have to get by, by luck and chance and who you know. God has been taking out of so many things today, when there was once a time nothing was operating without God. We felt blessed when doing good for others especially it being unconditionally. Today it’s like a curse with entitlement of people. There was a time you never had to worry about being blessed by your peers because you’d know that all you do was for the greater glory of God not yourself and God always in some ways rewarded you because you were never in want of anything and wherever you go and whatever you do, to even whatever happens to you, you were always blessed. But there is a silence from God whether we are the ones shutting him out or he just is.

What does the silence mean? It means that God like a father or mother who has been teaching his or her child to drive a car always sitting on the passenger seat, making sure everything is being done correctly by giving the child all direction and guidance. And as a child, we always believing, “I could do it all by myself” can’t wait for an opportunity to take the car and drive alone, just to prove to yourself and your parents you’re grown right? So God, unlike our parent, has now given us the key to the car and said, “go ahead and drive” meanwhile he already has prepared the police, lawyer, ambulance and anything we’d need in case things do not go as planned, he’ll show up. God always shows up as our defense. You see, we never have to lie or steal the car it is always up to us to take the chance knowing he is with us no matter what.

The lesson is we have been taught well, but do we understood the guidance and direction we were given? And if we do, there would be no need for his interference so his silence is merited. We may be going through what we must with God’s silence to see how well learnt we are, especially after he has given to us all that we need. But don’t be fooled God is not going to sit back and let all hell break through without Him making a move or saying something. Just because it feels like he’s silent doesn’t mean that he is not in control.

I remember the older people long ago used to say, “God always puts a hand(he helps by sending an angel in his stead), sends a man( some stranger that comes to your aid) or comes himself(Jesus)”.