Monday, June 15

“Why are you like a helpless man, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are among us, LORD, and we are called by Your name.”
Jeremiah 14:9 (CSV)

Have you ever been frustrated with God? Be honest! I don’t doubt that you are more spiritual than me, but are you more spiritual than Jeremiah? He got “put out” with God!

We all have our times when God mystifies us. He is all-powerful, but He seems to be impotent. He is our loving heavenly Father, but there are times when He seems to treat us like strangers.

I don’t know the secret to this. God’s ways will continue to be a mystery to me. But this much is true: God must have a purpose. If God chooses not to intervene on our behalf or to answer our prayers there must be a good reason. We have to accept the fact that God knows things we don’t know. There are mysteries that will continue to be mysteries to us.

This much we know: God is still with us. He may choose at this present time not to answer us, but He will never abandon us. He may allow us to stay in the stew, but He will swim in the stew with us. And as long as He is with us we will be okay.