David encountered the Lord on several fronts. He knew the Lord as his Shepherd. That was the theme of the 23rd psalm. In psalm 27, he described the Lord as his light and salvation. In our current text, the Lord was his rock. Of particular interest to us today is David’s fear. He seemed scared of God rendering Himself incommunicado; and this for good reason. He realized that if God were to be perpetually silent that would spell his doom. I love what the archbishop Clement Kirby once said: “God does not create fools; He only stops speaking to wise men!” When God stops speaking, even a wise man will resort to doing stupid.
When God stops speaking, even a wise man will resort to doing stupid…Taking the route of obedience will open the door to heavenly broadcast once more.
David must have been inspired to write our text by what happened to Saul. God stopped talking to Saul, and the end was disastrous. He therefore prayed not to join the statistics. While we may all join David to pray God not to be silent to us we must be wary of those things that put Him off from people. God did not just stop talking to Saul abruptly; His silence was born of Saul’s reckless disobedience. Taking the route of obedience will open the door to heavenly broadcast once more. In conclusion we can boldly say that people can go down to the pit because God stopped talking, they may as well get to the mountaintop when He starts speaking. We need a restoration of God’s voice once again in our lives.