We are all guilty of it.  We feel like we are waiting for God and at times doubt that He is going to be there for us.  Sometimes we even doubt He cares about us.  It happens to us all.

Even some of the most godly men from the Bible struggled with this doubt.  In 1 Kings 19, Elijah, the prophet of God, felt abandoned and alone.  In verse 10, Elijah cries, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”  Elijah felt that the whole world was against him and God was nowhere to be found.  Have you ever felt that way?

As the story continues God tells Elijah to stand on a nearby mountain and wait for the presence of God to pass by.  As Elijah stands a torrent of powerful and devastating wind tears into the mountain, but the Bible says that God was not in the wind.  Then a tremendous earthquake came and seemed to shake the very core of the Earth, but God was not in the earthquake.  Following the quake, a fire snaked onto the mountain and began devouring the vegetation and stripping the mountain clean with its power, but God wasn’t in the fire either.  Then the Bible says a gentle whisper could barely be heard, and the man of God knew instantly that his Lord was in the whisper.

Too often we miss the whisper of God while we are complaining about not having the powerful wind or ferocious fire.  We expect God to tear the opposition of our lives apart while we choose not to listen to His gentle loving guidance.

Do not miss out on God’s amazing plans for your life because you are waiting for an earthquake and missing the whisper.  When we feel the most alone, it is important to realize that God is always with us, maybe not in the way we expect but in the way He knows we need.

Hebrews 13:5b - “…God has said, ‘I will never fail you.  I will never abandon you.’”