Only God knows and understands all things

Have you ever had a time when you asked God to help with a bad situation or you needed guidance on a major life decision, but God was silent? It’s understandable to feel that you are being ignored by God. For us such stressful times, our world is limited to our plight. God assures us that he is with us. “… I am with you always, to the end of the age.”” (Matt. 28:20, ESV) What can we do, then? Trust that God is a work and that all things will work out for your “good” as he promises. Realize that your good may mean downturns and upturns, losses and gains, losing and prospering. We take comfort in the almighty God that knows all things and has power over all things – God that acts in his way and his time. In the Bible, we see times when God’s solution is simple and elegant and does exactly as he prophesied – yet happened in a totally unexpected way. To hear god, read and study his word in the Bible. Trust him in all things. Know this: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8–9 (ESV)

God’s time is different than our time

God may be silent because it’s not time for him to act. The people of Israel wondered in the desert 40 years before God led then into the promised land. And this was after they endured harsh slavery in Egypt for several generations before God sent Moses to lead them out of slavery. Consider these verses:

“But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8, ESV)

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,” 1 Peter 5:6 (ESV)

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,” Galatians 4:4 (ESV)