Life is a mystery to most of us.
Maybe not for everyone. Some people seem to have it figured out, or it appears that way from the outside. The rest of us need help to get by from day to day.
God, we plead. We need answers.
What if we don’t like what he has to say?
Israel was continually falling out of God’s good graces and returning to him, begging for his mercy. Whew! Over and over, they complained about their self-made troubles. In Judges 10:12, he rips their complaints apart.
“The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.”
God goes on and tells them to cry on the shoulders of the gods they’ve chosen, because he’s tired of their whining. The crucial point in this verse is that God is saying, “I have answered you. Look at all these things I’ve done for you. Weren’t you paying any attention at all? Sheesh!”
What answers has God already provided us? What blessings have already come our way? What people love us and tell us so? There’s an old song that says to count our blessings and to name them one by one. It’s pretty good advice today.
When we pray and don’t feel a reply from heaven, maybe God has already given us his answer. Maybe it’s in the blessings that have already come our way.
Being able to accept God’s answers is the first step to being able to trust God’s answers.
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