Advent2025_Dec1
When God Seems Silent
Luke 1:5–7; Galatians 4:4
God’s silence is never His absence.
For four hundred years, God’s people waited in silence. No prophet spoke. No new word came. The heavens felt quiet, and many must have wondered if God had forgotten them. Yet silence is not absence. In the stillness, God was preparing the world for redemption.
During those centuries, the Lord was setting the stage. Empires rose and fell, paving roads that would later carry the good news. The Greek language spread across nations, making it possible for the gospel to be shared widely. And in cities and villages throughout the Mediterranean world, Jewish families began to gather in small houses of worship called synagogues. These were places where Scripture was read aloud and hearts were trained to listen for the voice of God. The silence was not empty; it was full of unseen preparation.
Then Luke’s Gospel opens with a quiet, faithful couple: Zechariah and Elizabeth. They had prayed for a child, but their years of waiting had turned into decades. Still, they remained “righteous before God.” When God finally moved, He began not with the powerful or the famous, but with two servants who kept believing, even in the silence.
Maybe you know that feeling—the ache of prayers unanswered, the sense that heaven is quiet. Advent reminds us that God is never still. His promises are always working their way toward fulfillment. The same God who prepared the world for the birth of His Son is preparing your heart right now to see His faithfulness again.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son . . . ” (Gal. 4:4)
The silence wasn’t the end of the story. It was the prelude to salvation.
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For Young Ones: Can you think of something you had to wait a long time for? How did you feel when the answer finally came?
For Older Ones: Where might you be tempted to see God’s silence as absence? What might He be preparing in the quiet?
Pray: Lord, thank You that even when You seem silent, You are still at work. Help us to trust Your timing and rest in Your promises.
Family Practice: Light the first candle of Advent—the Candle of Promise—and thank God for always keeping His Word.
Luke 1:5–7; Galatians 4:4
God’s silence is never His absence.
For four hundred years, God’s people waited in silence. No prophet spoke. No new word came. The heavens felt quiet, and many must have wondered if God had forgotten them. Yet silence is not absence. In the stillness, God was preparing the world for redemption.
During those centuries, the Lord was setting the stage. Empires rose and fell, paving roads that would later carry the good news. The Greek language spread across nations, making it possible for the gospel to be shared widely. And in cities and villages throughout the Mediterranean world, Jewish families began to gather in small houses of worship called synagogues. These were places where Scripture was read aloud and hearts were trained to listen for the voice of God. The silence was not empty; it was full of unseen preparation.
Then Luke’s Gospel opens with a quiet, faithful couple: Zechariah and Elizabeth. They had prayed for a child, but their years of waiting had turned into decades. Still, they remained “righteous before God.” When God finally moved, He began not with the powerful or the famous, but with two servants who kept believing, even in the silence.
Maybe you know that feeling—the ache of prayers unanswered, the sense that heaven is quiet. Advent reminds us that God is never still. His promises are always working their way toward fulfillment. The same God who prepared the world for the birth of His Son is preparing your heart right now to see His faithfulness again.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son . . . ” (Gal. 4:4)
The silence wasn’t the end of the story. It was the prelude to salvation.
___________
For Young Ones: Can you think of something you had to wait a long time for? How did you feel when the answer finally came?
For Older Ones: Where might you be tempted to see God’s silence as absence? What might He be preparing in the quiet?
Pray: Lord, thank You that even when You seem silent, You are still at work. Help us to trust Your timing and rest in Your promises.
Family Practice: Light the first candle of Advent—the Candle of Promise—and thank God for always keeping His Word.
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