Yesterday, while praying, I had the impression that sometimes God will not answer while we are listening for him. It may be like going for a nature walk with another: that person may be expecting you to keep quiet and observe your surroundings as he is trying to do. Perhaps God wants us to observe. Maybe he gets exasperated if we are always chattering, never listening. We do not stop to think perhaps he does not always have to be talking to us.
Do we even listen for God’s answer to us? Do we expect it right away like lightening? If we don’t get an immediate answer do we grow impatient and fly away? If the answer is not the answer we were expecting would we even recognize it? If we recognize an answer are we polite enough to thank him?
While thinking this I saw two sparrows fly into the tree next to me. They came in high and chirped for a while (to establish territory? to attract interest?) Then they were quiet and eventually came down lower on the branches. After a while they flew to the ground. Were they watching for danger? The Bible says Got takes thought for all the sparrows (Luke 12:6, 7). This illustrates that he cares for each (I say again, each) of us.
