Day after day, week after week, and even month after month the pattern continues. Wake up, feel the pain of the situation, pray, go to sleep. Wash, rinse, repeat. Over and over again. But eventually that period comes to an end. It likely doesn’t come to an end with an exclamation point – not some resounding climactic moment, but rather it just… ends. And life goes on. Then some years later, you look back on that period. And you realize, in retrospect, just how much the Lord was doing in that time when He felt so unmoved and absent.

God keeps His promises. True enough, He may not keep them in the manner or the timing that’s most convenient or comfortable to us, but He keeps them nevertheless:

“Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands” (Deut. 7:9).

When it feels like He’s silent, He’s still keeping His promises.
When it feels like He’s absent, He’s still keeping His promises.
When it feels like He’s forgotten, He’s still keeping His promises.

Very often, though, we don’t really see the evidence of His faithfulness until it’s already happened. God keeps His promises even when we don’t know He’s doing it. Here’s one example:

Let’s say you are walking through a prolonged and difficult season. Perhaps it’s the illness of a loved one or a long time of being without work. Every day you wake up and you pray for some kind of movement – some alteration in your circumstances, and every day seems like the day before.

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