Oswald Chambers: Prayer - A Holy OccupationSample

Jesus says there are times when our heavenly Father will appear as if He were a most unnatural father, callous and indifferent. But remember, says Jesus, I have told you—“everyone who asks receives.” When we get into spiritual confusion the usual way out is to say we have made a blunder, and we go back instead of forward. “I don’t know what to do; I am up against a stone wall.”

Will you “hang in” to what Jesus said? If there is a shadow on the face of God the Father just now, remain confident that ultimately He will give His clear issue as Jesus said. It is not a question of black or white or right or wrong, of being in communion or out of communion; but a question of God taking us by a way which in the meantime we do not understand.

Reflection Questions: What is one issue about which God seems indifferent to me? Is my response one of faith or doubt?

Quotation taken from The Place of Help, © Discovery House Publishers