Asking God why or when

There are certain questions for which it is hard for the natural mind to get an answer from God. These are; asking God WHEN he is going to do something, or WHY he has not yet done something or WHY he has allowed something to happen - what is the meaning and purpose? The answer we usually get from God is wait – and you will see.

God does not mind that the natural mind wants to know these things. But there is one thing that you can know for certain in your spiritual mind – and that is that God IS at work in the situation and that we must never give up trusting him to bring about an understanding of his will and purpose for us no matter what the situation happens to be. He is telling us to live by faith, trusting him totally.

God is in command and in charge of every detail to bring about his purpose for us and he is committed to showing us who he is and what he is like, and what he is doing. What God wants us to get is a greater revelation of him in our spiritual mind, not a better explanation from him in our natural mind. He always gives us what he wants us to know, not always what we want to know. We get a new view of God and we grow in faith and trust – but we learn to hang in there and endure and be patient, and to know the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Habakkuk could not understand all the strife and injustice that was happening in the Nations round about him and he wanted God to do something but he was told by God that God’s plan of action would be revealed at an appointed time and ‘It would surely come and it would not be late’.

Habakkuk 2:3 ‘the revelation is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not be late. 4. For the just shall live by faith. And so too for us…

Hebrews 10:35 So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to know and be part of Gods purpose for you’. Then you will receive all that he has promised. For the just shall live by faith

So the natural mind still has questions because we know that God has said;

Isaiah 55:8-9 My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are My ways your ways… As high as the heavens are above the earth, so are my thoughts above your thoughts.

The New Covenant answers all such questions in the following way;

1Corinthians 2:14 Spirit can be known only by spirit—God's Spirit and our spirits in open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything God's Spirit is doing, and can't be judged by unspiritual critics. Isaiah's question, "Is there anyone around who knows God's Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?" has been answered: Christ knows, and we have the mind of Christ.

We can be perplexed but not in despair because a new kind of meaning and hope lives within us.