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Why and when? - What good asking for why and when is for us

Why and when?

 

Why and when

are these not the questions

we most frequently ask God?


God why did you allow this?

God when will that happen?


Aren’t we frustrated and angry

when we do not get

an immediate answer to them?


Even when unjust things happen

God has a way.

Even when things take a long time

God has a plan.


In God’s timing

there is no too early or too late.


It’s not about God focusing on us

but us focusing on God.


We do not experience

his strength and power

when he does what we want

but when we do what he wants.


Can we believe in his leadership

even in difficult times?


Do we still know that he is good

when he allows bad things to happen?


Much of what God prepares us for

has to be learned

through hard experiences

because we would never learn it otherwise.


Without having gone

through hard times ourselves

we cannot really understand

others who have a hard time.


Without deprivation

and long times of waiting

we don’t learn patience.

When we stay impatient,

we then give ourselves

and others a hard time.


Why and when

are two unnecessary questions

when it comes to

understanding God better

because they show

that we mistrust God’s

all-knowingness and his goodness.


God does not need our understanding

for what he does and allows

but our complete trust.


He has the whole plan.

He knows the entire timeline.

He teaches and guides

every single one of us

in an individual way.

He knows what he is doing.


Isn’t it time

we leave the why and when

in his hands?


Then life is much easier.

 

 

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 (The Israel Bible)

A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven:

 

Psalm 73:16–17 (The Israel Bible)

So I applied myself to understand this, but it seemed a hopeless task 17 till I entered Hashem's sanctuary and reflected on their fate.

 

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