"Sometimes, we will listen and we will hear silence. We will look around, and we will not see him or what he is up to, and we will not know what to make of our circumstances, but here's what we do know: we walk with the God who preserves his people. The God who stores our tears in a bottle is the God who knows our names and who shapes our names and our circumstances and will always be among us." What do we do when God is silent? How do we have hope when it feels like he is absent? Listen as Alasdair Groves considers God's seeming silence for 400 years of history between the Old and New Testaments, and how even then, God's care is never diminished. Related resources:

• Where Was God? | Blog post by Ed Welch www.ccef.org/where-was-god/
• Why Prayer Is Hard for Me | Blog post by Laura Andrews www.ccef.org/why-prayer-is-hard-for-me/