“Why doesn’t God speak to us anymore?” is a question that had plagued many of us. What we need to realize is that his words are written upon the pages of his creation, and his syllables are spoken by ten thousand voices. it is our ears that are deaf and do not listen to his sweet voice. It is our eyes that are blind to the words written in the sky. It is the heart of humanity that is dull and sluggish in the presence of the living God.
We must stop to peel the scales from our eyes and remove the plugs from our ears in order to train our hearts to hear the whisper of God’s voice. Then we can truly begin to seek the face of God and hear his voice.
Book of Job 26.14
Job’s life had become a battlefield on which God and Satan did combat. The outcome depended on Job, who didn’t know anything depended on his response to a series of personal tragedies. Satan proposed the wager our of total confidence in his experience with human nature. God accepted the wager because he knew Job’s enormous trust in him was something Satan could not understand.
Faith and doubt waged war for Job’s soul. They war in us, too. Every temptation to sin, every opportunity to help someone else, every ethical choice, every conversation is a skirmish that claims some of the terrain of our souls for light or darkness.
Job never knew why his well-ordered life ripped to shreds. He raged at God because he couldn’t find out why, but he didn’t turn against God. Job shows us how to keep the faith, no matter how grim the circumstances of life may be. Sometimes the stakes are enormous, In the unseen world, Satan and the armies of darkness will be defeated because of our faith.’
Emerging From The Dark Night 