A Story, Part IV

After God showed this girl that she could survive when He wasn't moving - even learn to enjoy the quiet times - He brought her into a period of activity. She was so grateful to finally see Him move again. The times at His feet were valuable, but working with Him was so much more fun... for a while. After about a week she started to feel like God moving wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The initial excitement wore off, and it became another form of work. Suddenly those times of sitting on the bed and praying for hours didn't seem so bad.
Something prompted her to go back and look at the moment God revealed Himself to her. She pointed to her miracle. But God showed her she was wrong. God wasn't answering her prayer when she got chills down her spine. He wasn't even proving His reality when He planted a seed of life in her the first time she prayed. God showed her He was real that day He woke her up. He answered her prayer before she had the ability to speak the words.
In that moment, she knew that God doesn't move when she sees action. He moves through His voice. He moved the day He promised Abraham a son, not the day Isaac was born. When God says something, it is, even if we don't see it until later. That quiet voice is the most powerful force in the universe.
God showed this girl that His voice is the only thing that matters. It doesn't just see her through moments when He's not doing what she wants. It doesn't just give her patience when she's waiting for Him to do anything at all. It's there, it will always be there, and it was there before she had the ability to hear it. It's there in the stillness and it's there in every earthquake, whirlwind, and fire. That voice is the God she fell in love with, though she didn't know it then. It's not just good enough to get her through a hard time, it's better than the best time. It's all she will ever need. That voice proves God is real.
And that voice will never leave her, no matter what. Who could ask for more?