Is God still listening? Why doesn’t he answer my prayer?
This is my question, my counselees’ question, and a question that every one of us asks at some point in our lives. We are praying for something that God himself defines as good: the salvation of a loved one, the healing of someone in pain, or justice for a horrible situation. Often, prayers continue to spill out of our hearts, and yet there seems to be silence from above.
What is God up to?
When my faith reawakened in my early 20s, I loved learning more about the Old Testament. Isaiah became a favorite, especially chapter 55. It speaks of fulfilling our hunger and thirst in the Lord, and the everlasting covenant between God and his people. But when I read, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways” (v.8), I struggled to understand what seemed to be a rebuke. “Lord, I know I don’t have the depth and breadth of your understanding, but aren’t we coming from the same viewpoint? Aren’t we moving in the same direction?!”
Four decades later, I have a deeper understanding of that passage and how I do and do
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