We’re told to trust in God.
Then the fridge goes south, and we scramble for funds to get it up and running.
Or our church needs more room, but there’s no money to expand. The building fund barely grows, and a loan is a long stretch for the financially beleaguered congregation.
Where are God’s promises then?
War, and poverty. We pray that God’s peace spreads across the world, and we get another car bombing in London or Tel Aviv or in Detroit.
The Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Where was God then?
Sandy Hook or Littleton … is God even paying attention?
Or do we have skewed expectations of God? Maybe those things are not in his “bag of tricks.”
Isaiah 30:18 gives us an update on how God sees things.
“Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.”
God is still on his throne. He is the ruler that controls all of creation. He respects the laws he has instituted.
God doesn’t shift the sun and moon simply because it might suit us. Some things happen because of circumstances or because people have made decisions one way or the other.
God’s promises are to be gracious to us and to show us mercy.
If we wait on the Lord, everything he has promised will be done.
The urgency is ours, not God’s. Our duty is to give him space to perform his perfect will.
God shows us mercy when we live in his will.
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