When God Seems Absent

What do you do when God doesn't seem to be listening to you, or even paying any kind of attention to you?  It is like that we all have had times in our life where it just seemed that God was off in another place, doing something else, and it didn't seem to matter to Him what was going on in our life.  There was something we wanted Him to do or help out with, but He seemed strangely absent.

That's the kind of thing that David was going through when he penned Psalm 55.  Especially in the first two verses (Psalm 55:1-2), David seems to think that God isn't hearing him, and David wants an answer.  If you read through the rest of the Psalm, you see that David seemed to have been let down or betrayed by someone who had been close to him.  He had talked to God about the situation, but it didn't seem like God was paying any attention to him.

Maybe you have felt that way before.  Maybe you feel that way right now.  It seems like God is more like the Bette Midler song, where she sings that God is watching us from a distance.  He may be out there, but He doesn't seem to be very involved in the details or the particulars.

This week, we'll be looking at a few things that the Bible has to say about when God seems to be absent in our lives.  How can we be reassured by someone who doesn't seem to be there?  How can we recognize how God is actually close to us, and how do we see that?  What do we do when it just seems like He doesn't care?  We'll dive into some of these throughout this week, and I welcome any thoughts or even questions that I may not directly address.