The Midnight Tribunal
When the cupboards are bare and the heart is broken, God isn't asking for your noise. He's asking for your surrender.
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| The Midnight Tribunal: Finding God’s Provision in Seasons of Emptiness |
When suffering deepens, the mind becomes a courtroom. You find yourself at a Midnight Tribunal, putting God on the witness stand. The questions are relentless and painful:
The Prosecution of Faith
"If You are a good Father, why am I struggling for a loaf of bread? What did I do to deserve this cycle of lack? Have You abandoned me while the wicked prosper? Does Your name even carry power anymore?"
These questions don't make you a sinner; they make you a seeker. Even Elijah, after calling down fire, sat under a broom bush and asked for his life to end. Even David, the man after God’s heart, cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" You are in good company in your confusion.
The weight of unpaid school fees, empty plates, and worn-out clothes is not an abstract spiritual problem—it is a physical burden that can crush a soul. You wonder who will bring you out of this hole. You look at your children and feel the sting of "failing" them.
Recall the Widow with the Two Jars (2 Kings 4). Her husband was dead, her debts were high, and the creditors were coming to take her children into slavery. She had zero solutions. But God’s answer was not a bank transfer; it was a demand for her to use the "little" she had left.
God’s mathematics always begins where your logic ends. The oil only stopped flowing when she ran out of empty jars. Your stillness is the "empty jar"—the more you quiet your panic, the more room you give God to pour in His provision.
"Why did He take my loved one?" This is the question that stillness struggles to answer. Grief is a unique kind of noise. It tells you that the Watchman fell asleep on His shift.
Look at Job. He lost his entire legacy in a single afternoon. He didn't just lose money; he lost the very people he lived for. He sat in the ashes and asked "Why?" for 37 chapters. But in chapter 38, God spoke—not to explain the loss, but to reveal His Sovereignty.
The Sovereignty Shift
When God revealed His power over the whirlwind, Job realized that some victories are won by trusting what you cannot see rather than understanding what you have lost. God didn't abandon Job; He was using the silence to prepare a double-portion restoration.
To the one reading this who thinks, "I can't go on"—there is a Watchman watching you. His name is El Roi, the God who sees.
Being still (Raphah) means you stop trying to "save" yourself. It means you stop judging God by your current bank balance or the empty chair at your table. It is the realization that if God provides for the lilies of the field, He has a plan for your children's fees.
Victory doesn't always look like a shout. Sometimes, victory is the person who wakes up in a storm, looks at the waves, and decides to go back to sleep because they know who owns the boat. The Solution is already in motion. Lay down your case. Let the Sovereign God be God.
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