Science Of Silence

All of a sudden, I'm finding whether people respond to these blogs with comments and being something of tremendous importance to me. As you may have noticed, there is not much going on in the way of feedback on many of my posts.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't some kind of attempt at rousing a campaign where everyone posts comments on the time to massage my ego in some superficial way.

The reason I bring it up is because I had a moment today of thinking, 'this blog business is not doing anyone any good, there are so few positive responses, I should probably stop at the end of the month'.

How many times do I view prayer in such a similar way? That if I don't see some positive results to the effort put in, I may as well give up.

Then I wake up and realise that is the slippery slope to a 'me first' faith, where I believe as long as it's all good for me. I have spoken to people who have read my musings around here, and they have commented on it-so there has been a response, albeit a relatively silent one, and I won't necessarily see the results of anything positive to come through any of the words I post on here.

Sometimes it's like that with prayer too. I've got a list of 'old school' contacts, going back ten years or so from when I first became a Christian, that I pray for as regularly as I can. Some of these guys and girls are now off my radar in different parts of the UK if not the world and I don't see them very often, or at all.But I have to trust that God knows where they are and is answering my prayers for them, even though I'm left with silence for the time being.

What's my point here? I guess that just because I don't see things doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Silence is not always an indication of inactivity...