The Day God Was Silent
19
April 2025
Wisdom
Tomorrow is Easter. On this particular Saturday, I am incredibly thankful that my salvation is not based on feelings.
They are in fact, a bit of a roller coaster.
In January, a message from a friend alerted me to the heartbreaking and unexpected loss of his wife. His devastation left me feeling helpless.
A few weeks later found me packing my suitcase in a hotel in the UK to catch a flight back to the United States only to get the phone call that my father had already passed away.
Weeks later my precious friend lost her heroic fight to cancer.
The day after her memorial yet another friend had found out a devastating diagnosis.
It’s heavy and seemingly hopeless.
As I struggle to find meaning in the broken world, I am reminded that the day before Easter is often referred to as the day God was silent. I wondered what the disciples must have thought. All their hope laying in a cold tomb?
This past week I had to write an exegetical paper on Job 28 for a class I’m taking. It is clear from that passage that we don’t have the wisdom to traverse these dark valleys. Job used mining metaphors to convey the idea that though precious things can be found, wisdom cannot be found or purchased.
Job mentioned places he’d searched in his pursuit of wisdom:
- Not found in the land of the living (vs. 13)
- The deep says, ‘It is not in me’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’(vs 14)
- Wisdom cannot be bought in a market (vs 15).
- Finally Job concludes that it is hidden from all the living (vs. 21).
Kerry Tittle
Founder, Refined Family
Kerry Tittle is a mother of 10 children and a 20+-year homeschool veteran. She is the founder of Refined Family. Her desire is to honor Christ while comforting others with the comfort she has received from the Lord.
Job 28:23
God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
The bottom line is that neither Job nor his friends knew where to find wisdom. However, the Lord made it known “And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding’” (Job 28:28, ESV). God claims knowledge for himself only that no one else will know. The theology of Job brings the reader to arelationship between wisdom and the fear of God.
It occurred to me, I don’t have to find meaning in a broken world. I only have to trust in the God that we also cannot comprehend, the very one who created the world, keeps the planets aligned and calls the stars by name.
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Our hope is not found in the dreadful day that he was silent. Our hope is found because Sunday is coming. The tomb is empty and the resurrected Jesus brings hope to all who believe in Him.
Dear friend, if you are a Christian, a new day is coming! This broken world will soon pass away and the New Heaven and New Earth will bring Joy unfathomable because we will live with the one who championed our salvation.