Where Is God?

When it seems God is silent, that is when He is shouting the loudest.   #daybydaylw   Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org!   ~~~   SIAS: When it seems like God is silent, that is when He is shouting the loudest. What does any of that have to do with what we are studying in 2 Samuel? Let’s take a look. We are in chapter 13, and it is a most devastating chapter. It begins with David’s oldest son, Amnon, letting his lust run out of control to where he violates his own half sister, Tamar. And afterwards, being so full of his own lust, he completely his lust turns to hatred of Tamar, and he casts her out in such a way as to make everyone else think that he is the victim and she is the culprit, leaving her to live in shame. At the end of the story we read that Tamar’s brother takes her in, provides for her, and tells her to stay silent about the issue, causing her to live a desolate life in Absalom’s house. The story ends by saying that King David heard about all of this and it angered him, and that Absalom refused to speak to Amnon, his half-brother, neither good nor evil, letting Amnon believe that Absalom didn’t know about the events, or didn’t care about them.