At the very top of Holy biblical faith lies an uncomfortable truth most pulpits quietly avoid: some of the clearest moments of divine speech in Holy Scripture occur not in sanitized holiness, but in the middle of human desire, moral confusion, and emotional wreckage. This is the deep secret rarely named by pastors, scholars, or teachers—not because it is unbiblical, but because it is deeply unsettling. The Holy Bible does not present God as a voice heard only after desire has been conquered. More often, God speaks while desire is raging.
The modern religious imagination prefers a God who waits outside the mess. The Holy biblical record suggests otherwise. In fact, the Holy Scripture repeatedly shows God entering human vulnerability without asking first if it is respectable. Divine revelation does not always interrupt lust; sometimes it exposes it, redirects it, or uses it as a mirror. This is not an endorsement of sexual sin, but a refusal to pretend that God only speaks to people at their best. The Holy Bible insists that God often speaks at their weakest.
Judah and Tamar stand as an early witness to this truth. Judah mistakes his daughter-in-law for a prostitute and sleeps with her. The moment is sordid, transactional, and morally compromised. Yet the turning point of the story is not divine thunder, but self-recognition. I mean a desire unveiling character.
“She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.”
— Genesis 38:26
Judah hears truth precisely where he expected pleasure. Desire becomes the doorway to repentance. God does not speak despite the mess; He speaks through its consequences.
Samson’s narrative intensifies the tension. His attraction to Philistine women weakens him, blinds him, and eventually costs him his freedom. Still, Scripture refuses to detach God’s purposes from Samson’s flawed longing.
“His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines.”
— Judges 14:4
This verse unsettles neat theology. Samson’s desire is reckless, yet God is not absent from it. Divine speech does not always arrive to cancel appetite; sometimes it arrives to expose how appetite can collide with destiny. Samson hears God most clearly not when he is disciplined, but when he is broken.
Prophet Hosea’s story is the most scandalous of all. God commands him to marry a woman whose life will publicly contradict prophetic credibility. Hosea’s marriage is not a metaphor added later; it is the medium of revelation itself. His emotional devastation becomes God’s sermon to a nation skilled in religious language but empty of fidelity.
“Go, marry a woman of promiscuity and have children of promiscuity, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
— Hosea 1:2
Hosea does not learn God’s voice in retreat or ritual. He learns it in betrayal, longing, humiliation, and love that refuses to let go. Sexual pain becomes prophetic clarity. Revelation does not arrive once desire is tamed; it arrives as desire is wounded.
This brings us to a painful, contemporary silence within the Church. There are prophets, pastors, teachers, and servants genuinely called by God who have retreated into hiding; not because God withdrew the call, but because shame convinced them they were disqualified. A sexual fall, a hidden struggle, a moment of weakness became the excuse for lifelong escapism. They sit in self-pity, watching from the shadows, while counterfeit confidence occupies pulpits.
At the same time, Scripture warns that not everyone who appears bold before crowds is approved by God. There are voices leading churches, filling platforms, and building followings while privately clubbing, sleeping around, and treating grace as a license rather than a summons. The tragedy is not only moral failure; it is moral numbness; a conscience no longer trembling before God.
“They say, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.”
— Jeremiah 6:14
Meanwhile, those genuinely broken, those who still feel the weight of conscience, mistake conviction for rejection. They confuse exposure with exile. But the Holy Bible never teaches that feeling ashamed means being abandoned. Often, it means God is still speaking.
“A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not quench.”
— Isaiah 42:3
The most dangerous posture is not falling. It is refusing to rise because of the fall. God does not call the flawless; He calls the honest. The same Scriptures that expose desire also insist that calling is irrevocable.
“The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”
— Romans 11:29
This is the moment of reckoning. If God could speak through Judah’s failure, Samson’s weakness, and Hosea’s humiliation, then silence today is not proof of disqualification. It is often proof of avoidance. Escapism masquerading as humility is still disobedience.
God sees. He sees the hidden tears of those who withdrew too early. He sees the noise of those who advanced too boldly. And He is still calling; not to perfection, but to obedience. Not to denial of desire, but to surrender within it. The time for hiding is over. The God who speaks in broken places is still speaking.
– Inah Boniface Ocholi writes from Ayah – Igalamela/Odolu LGA, Kogi state.
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