There are times when some of us have felt totally removed from God’s understanding. The hopes are gone. Though we expect in anticipation for a better life, not anything comes to pass. The Word of God promises many things but that doesn’t seem to be happening.

The Word says Christ has been made poor so that you can become rich. But in almost every country there are people still suffering the effect of the curse of poverty. The Word of God says by His stripes you are healed. But there, they are people in hospitals, homes and everywhere still in sickness. The Word of God tells you, you have power and authority over evil. But there, they are still oppressed by evil spirits. The Word of God says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you and your household shall be saved. But there, their loved ones are still not saved yet. 

The Word of God says something but we are experiencing something else. It’s not because God did not promise but because there is somehow a missing link between the promise and the manifestation. Between what God said and what came to pass. We Christians feel rejected by the world outside our Churches and homes and so we keep to ourselves. 

Many a soul struggles with divine silence. And to make matters worse it prolongs for days, sometimes months together. Following a calamity, the victim crawls out, cries out, and expects overnight relief. It does not come. The one who is left alone to face what seem to be endless responsibilities turns to God for His intervention - for His comforting reassurance only to be met with silence, unseen. That terrible silence! Equally difficult is a lingering illness. No prayer, it seems, is effective. As the piercing silence continues from above, pain intensifies below. 

Believe it or not, Ps.19:1-9 directs our attention to the skies and wonders of the creation that has something to say about those anguishing times of silence for the humans on earth. In beautiful ways the heavens above us speak with profound wisdom. 

The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork (Ps.19:1). This is to say an understanding of God that might encompasses the whole of created reality. As, someone rightly said that creation is the great foundation stone of all Biblical faith and God is sovereign over His creation and yet intimately present within it. 

God’s majestic universe contains a message. It is, in fact a bold announcement! Regardless of the time of day, location or our country, if we look up, we are able to hear His message! 

God reveals His eternal power and divine nature so clearly that everyone is left without excuse. Don’t tell me that God has hidden Himself from the world! We live every waking moment under the constant reminder of God’s presence, sovereignty, and power. Anyone who struggles with the mystery of divine silence-whether its while picking up the pieces after a disaster, or recovering from the loss of a loved one, or trying to find a broken relationship with one another - needs only to look up God is speaking! 

The heavens may declare God’s power and glory but they do not declare His will or His plan and promise of salvation. God has communicated those marvelous truths in His word through His Son Jesus. It also tells us specific ways God’s truth works within us. Through the scriptures we are warned of evil and potential dangers. And through the God’s creation we are given hope for all times of struggles. The individual who really knows his Bible is kept from numerous errors simply because he believes God’s warning signals. 

Furthermore, they provide us with discernment – the ability to know right from wrong. Simple though that may sound, that is one of the signs of maturity. But do we really care enough to bring the creation into touch with the cry of humanity; or does it hang still without any hope? The text from the Psalm surely tells the living relationship of humanity and God and in relation to what He created in this universe. Yes, God speaks to us in silence too, if we allow ourselves to look around and believe. It is to hear the cries of our humanity expressing, sometimes distressingly, sometimes dreadfully, sometimes disgustingly, the fragmentation brought about by the fall, so neither the earth nor humanity remained as God intended to be. In the present time of uncertainties we are those who can be sure. Yes in this hurt, miserable, careless, sinful world; a world so loved by its Creator instead of destroying it, He chose to take it in His wounded hands and transform it into the transcendent, singing beauty that is His will for it.