“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”…“God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.”~ Heb. 13:5; 2 Chron. 32:31
A father may temporarily depart from his children, for some reason, but this does not necessarily mean he has permanently deserted them.
God left Hezekiah for a season, but did not forsake him. The word “leave” carries with it the idea of both permanency and impermanency. Context is the interpreter.
What is one to do when God hides Himself from His child for a time? Oswald Chambers, I believe, has the best answer I’ve read. Although the super-saints will no doubt chafe under his admonition. In his book My Upmost for His Highest, he pens “Sometimes we need to live as though there were no God.”
During those intervals in the child of God’s life when there is no inspiration, no touch of God, no answered prayer, and all is drudgery, what is a Christian to do? Isaiah tells us what to do in this trying time. “And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face…and I will look for him.”~ Isa. 8:17
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