Dear friend,
Someone wrote to me this week and asked me a question I have not been able to stop thinking about.
They said, Father Thomas, has God left America? It feels like He has.
I read that message three times before I answered it. Not because I did not know what to say. But because I wanted to say it right. I think a lot of you have asked yourselves the same question, even if you never wrote it down.
I want to answer it for you today.
To answer it, I need to take you back to a man named Elijah.
You may know his story. He was one of God's bravest prophets. He had just done something extraordinary. He had stood alone against hundreds of false prophets and won. Fire fell from heaven right in front of everyone. It was one of the clearest miracles in the whole Bible.
And right after that, Elijah ran for his life.
A wicked queen wanted him dead. He was exhausted, scared, and alone. He ran into the wilderness and sat under a tree and asked God to let him die. He felt like everything he had done meant nothing. He felt forgotten.
Does that sound familiar to anyone reading this?
God did not yell at Elijah for feeling that way. He did not tell him to toughen up. He let him sleep. He sent an angel to feed him. And then He told him to go stand on a mountain, because God was about to pass by.
Here is the part I want you to really hear.
First came a powerful wind, strong enough to break rocks. God was not in the wind.
Then came an earthquake. God was not in the earthquake.
Then came a fire. God was not in the fire.
And after all of that, there was a quiet, gentle whisper. And that is where God was.
This is in 1 Kings chapter 19, starting at verse 11, if you want to read it yourself this weekend. I think you should.
Here is why I think this story matters so much right now.
A lot of you are watching the news and waiting for God to show up the way Elijah expected Him to. Loud. Obvious. Undeniable. A clear sign. A clear winner. A clear end to the chaos.
And when that does not happen right away, it feels like God has gone quiet. It feels like He has left.
But the story of Elijah teaches us something important. God was not absent in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire. He simply was not making His move there. He was waiting for the quiet moment to speak.
I believe God is doing the same thing right now in America.
The silence you feel is not abandonment. It is patience. God is not loud the way the world is loud. He does not need cameras or headlines. He works in the quiet places first. In your prayers. In your living room. In the people who are still faithful even when nobody is watching them be faithful.
He has not left. He is simply not announcing Himself the way you expected Him to.
I want to tell you something else.
I have spent a long time studying what Scripture says about moments exactly like this one. Moments when it feels like evil is winning and God is silent. And I noticed something. These moments are always followed by something nobody saw coming.
That is actually the whole reason I wrote They Tried To Stop Him: What The Bible Says About Donald Trump.
I was not trying to write a political book. I was trying to answer the same question that person asked me this week. Has God left? And what I found, going through Scripture passage by passage, was a clear pattern of God working quietly behind the scenes long before anyone could see what He was doing.
The guide walks through that pattern in detail. Specific verses. Specific examples. The kind of careful study that takes the fear out of this moment and replaces it with something steadier. If the question someone asked me this week has been sitting in your heart too, I think this guide will help. You can find it by clicking on the image below
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So if you are the person who asked me if God has left America, or if you have simply been wondering it quietly, here is my honest answer.
He has not left.
He is in the quiet whisper, not the noise. He is working in the parts of this story you cannot see yet. And one day, when you look back, you will understand exactly what He was doing the whole time.
Hold on a little longer, friend. The whisper is still speaking. You just have to be quiet enough to hear it.
God bless you. Have a peaceful weekend.
With you in prayer,
Father Thomas
This weekend I want you to do three things:
One. Read 1 Kings chapter 19, verses 1 through 13. Read it slowly. Notice how God cared for Elijah before He ever spoke to him.
Two. Find five quiet minutes this weekend with no television, no phone, no noise. Just sit. Ask God to speak to you the way He spoke to Elijah. Then actually wait and listen.
Three. If the question about America has been sitting heavy on you, read They Tried To Stop Him this weekend: https://fatherthomasletters.com/products/they-tried-to-stop-him-what-the-bible-says-about-donald-trump
I think it will give you the steadiness you have been looking for.