Lord if You will You can make me clean
Luke 5:12 ESV
We follow a Lord that can do
anything and we must always remember it’s not if You can, but if You will. As broken a flawed people, who are terribly
impatient, we feel that when what we ask God for doesn’t come quickly that He
just isn’t listening. Some even feel
that maybe they didn’t pray right or enough.
We feel that our request is good (we want it) and that there may even be
scriptural references that we can come up with why God should provide the
answer we want.
But what happens when he doesn’t
answer us in the timeframe we determine that he should?
How do we feel when He doesn’t
answer us in the exact way we think He should?
How do we feel when He doesn’t
answer us at all?
Do you accept that a sovereign,
all knowing and omniscient has decided that he will answer you in the way He
feels best? Not your timeframe but
His. Because you may not have been ready
and couldn’t truly appreciate His provision yet. Not what you asked for but what He knows you need,
the best for you. The truth that He didn’t provide it because you didn’t need
it or He may have something better for you in His timeframe?
Not yet
Not that, but
this
No…
Is God still good when He doesn’t
answer the way we feel best? Is he the
Lord of our life if we don’t trust His decisions as best? Who serves who? Who knows best?
I’ll use the word loosely, but
with maturity and time we can see that God knows best. And like children see that their parents aren’t
as dumb as they think we can also begin to see God as wiser and more capable of
seeing what’s best for us. With time, we
become wiser, certainly not wise but wiser.
… but the upright enjoy acceptance.
Proverbs 14:9 ESV
The original Hebrew word for
acceptance in this passage is Rotsown/ raw-tsone'. At its most
basic meaning is pleasure. Are we truly
taking pleasure in the interactions we have with God?
