Wrestling with God’s apparent absence

Referencing the despair of God's people as found in the Isaiah 64 narrative, Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, dramatized how distant God's people felt from Him, how they felt "his face hidden from them." In his anguish for a people feeling abandoned, Isaiah pleaded with God to "rip open the heavens and come down and act." Likewise today, in all of our afflictions and discouragement, we call upon God to show himself, to rescue us in a time of trouble. "But we need to look for God's face because we never know in what place, or in what person, he will come to us. Her sermon was the first in the Advent series "Let Your Face Shine."