As Reformation Day approaches I took my devotion last night from Luther Day by Day, and his thoughts centered on Isaiah 45.15:"Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour." Does it ever feel to you as it did to Luther that God hides himself from you? Luther felt that at times that the enemies of God did what they liked with God's Word and with Christians, and that in Luther's words, "...He lets us call and cry, and keeps silence as though he were writing a poem, or were preocupied with something else, or were out in the fields, or were alseep and could not hear us." Luther knew what it was like to wrestle in prayer with God in the dark times of his life. All of us have such times when it appears that God is silent. Yet Luther knew too that God does not sleep or slumber. He always watches over us....