When God Is Silent: The Hidden Warning in King Mesha’s Story

When I look at the news these days — the scandals, the corruption, the atrocities, and how many people somehow get away with things that should have ended careers and lives — I’m reminded of certain Bible stories that were not loud at all. No floods. No plagues. No fire raining from the sky. Just whispered lessons wrapped in silence.

In desperation, Mesha took his firstborn son — the crown prince — and sacrificed him on the city wall as an offering to his god, Chemosh, hoping to force a miraculous reversal.

The sight was so shocking that the attacking armies pulled back in disgust and moral outrage. Mesha may have felt triumphant in that moment, but the victory was hollow. Moab remained weakened. The coalition never returned, not because he “won,” but because they were horrified. His people were traumatized. His dynasty ended with the very child he killed. And historically, Moab faded into insignificance soon after. What Mesha called a breakthrough was actually the beginning of Moab’s slow collapse — proof that any “success” achieved through moral compromise eventually destroys the very future it was meant to protect.

Now here’s the wild part: God says and does absolutely nothing about this. No prophet storms in. No earthquake. No burning bush shouting, “My man, STOP.”Heaven just… watches. And that silence? Oh, it’s the loudest thing in the whole story. You can almost hear God thinking:

“Go ahead, Mesha. Let’s see how far your madness takes you.”

Mesha probably celebrated. Threw a massive victory party. Wrote a bragging song.
Posted Moab’s version of Instagram highlights:

“Sacrificed my son 💥 Won the war 💥 #Blessed #ChemoshDidItAgain”

But life has a way of teaching lessons gently at first…then brutally later. Sometimes the thing you call success is actually slow-acting poison. And this is not new. We’ve seen it in our lifetime — very recently.

People we once treated as saints: Successful CEOs…Superstars on magazine covers…Politicians who promised “fresh air”… Pastors with stadium-sized crowds… Influencers preaching “soft life”…

Then boom — scandal. Fraud. Secret families. Hidden deals. Exposed recordings. Court cases.
Entire empires built on lies collapsing in public. For years, no lightning struck. No divine warning.
God was silent — and they mistook that silence for approval. But silence is not endorsement. Sometimes silence is God saying:

“I don’t need to embarrass you. Your own choices will handle that for Me.”

Because here’s what we forget: God doesn’t rush judgment. He lets consequences mature. It’s generational. It’s systemic. It’s spiritual economics. In Exodus 20:5, God says

He “visits the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.”

Not because He is cruel — but because moral debt accumulates like interest on a bad loan.
If you don’t clear it, it rolls over into the next generation with penalties.

Look at some of the recent scandals: The fall of families, businesses, ministries, and political dynasties that once looked untouchable. The cracks usually appear later… in the children,
in the legacy, in the reputation,in the community —long after the applause dies.

That’s Mesha’s story replaying itself. He “won” for one night — but Moab paid for generations.

So when God is quiet in your life, in your workplace, or in your family, don’t assume He’s ignoring the situation. Sometimes He lets false victories burn themselves out. Sometimes He lets people run their own race… straight into their consequences. Because every success that defies His principles eventually collapses under its own weight.

✨ Final Thought

Choose the kind of success your grandchildren will thank you for — not the kind they will suffer for without understanding why. God’s silence is not absence. Sometimes it’s Him whispering:

“Don’t worry. Time will reveal everything.”