5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: When God Seems Silent | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 31, 2025
- This is the lesson i take from job's life.
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- Even when he doesn't feel hurt.
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- He doesn't stop talking to god.
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- Now he doesn't pretend that he's okay with the silence.
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- He's angry and confused.
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- Heartbroken, raw and real.
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- I think that's where we start.
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- When nothing makes sense.
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- We meet a man called job.
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- And the pages of the old testament
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- And chapter 30, verse 20.
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- He's so desperate.
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- So desperate that this is his prayer.
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- I cry to you, god, but you don't answer.
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- I stand before you, but you don't even look.
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- I don't think that there's anything
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- More heartbreaking when you're in pain than to pray
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- And feel as if god isn't listening for this man job.
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- The pain is even deeper.
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- He has presented himself repeatedly to god
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- When he's at his most vulnerable and broken,
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- And it seems that god doesn't even acknowledge his existence.
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- You can read all of job's story in the pages
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- Of the old testament, and although in the end
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- He does hear from god, it takes a very long time.
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- But we learn a very important lesson from job's life.
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- Before his story unfolds, we read this.
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- He was a good man, totally devoted to god,
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- Someone who hated evil and lived his life with integrity.
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- But then disaster struck and everything in his life
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- Fell apart.
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- He lost his wealth, his livestock.
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- But the greatest loss had to be the loss of his children.
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- That is every parent's worst nightmare.
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- When job needed to hear from god.
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- More than he'd ever done in his life.
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- All he heard was the hollow vacuum of silence
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- And a dark, confused and very lonely place to be.
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- Have you ever been there?
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- Are you there now?
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- Have you poured your heart out to god?
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- And all you sense is the silence of heaven.
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- When it feels as if god is not listening,
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- That can turn pain into hopelessness.
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- If god is not hearing us, what hope do we have?
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- I mean, where else can we turn?
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- This is the lesson i take from job's life.
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- Even when he doesn't feel hurt.
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- He doesn't stop talking to god.
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- Now he doesn't pretend that he's okay with the silence.
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- He's angry and confused.
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- Heartbroken, raw and real.
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- I think that's where we start.
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- When nothing makes sense.
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- Have you ever told god the whole truth?
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- So often we feel as if we need to clean ourselves up
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- To come to god. what's your point?
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- He was in too much pain to be careful.
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- You don't have to be careful with god.
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- You get to be honest and real at the end of a story.
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- God commended job for his honesty,
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- And i believe that the level that we're willing to be honest
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- With god is an indication of how much we trust him.
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- Job's honest questions brought him
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- Closer at the end to god.
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- This is what he said.
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- I'd only heard about you before, but now my eyes have seen you.
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- And then job says.
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- And job, 19, verse 25.
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- I know that my redeemer lives.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father god, thank you that you understand that at times
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- Our life is so hard that we can't come to you
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- With nice, clean, tidied up words.
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- Thank you that you invite us to come as we really are.
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- Thank you
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- That we can bring
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- All our emotions and it doesn't create a distance.
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- In fact, it draws us closer to your heart.
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- Thank you for that.
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- In jesus name.
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- Amen. woo.
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