I was in the kitchen frantically scrubbing out a bottle preparing to fill it with fresh milk while simultaneously listening to Catalyst, my 2.5 month old screaming in the living room. She was safe in her Mamaroo with a clean diaper, but she was hungry. When she wants something she is unrelenting. I hate just letting her cry, but I knew ultimately she was okay.
What she couldn’t understand, is that I was diligently working to provide what she needed and what she was crying for. I love her so much. I hadn’t forgotten about her. I was soon coming to pick her up, give her a full bottle and stop her cries. I would soon meet her need. I wasn’t ignoring her.
As I stood at the kitchen sink looking out the window, I saw myself in her cries. There has been times I have felt like my infant in the other room, praying and crying out to God for what I wanted or what I needed, but was left with silence.
Just like my daughter couldn’t see me or understand what I was working on, there has been times I couldn’t see God at work. I didn’t recognize what He was doing. And though I couldn’t understand it, He was preparing exactly what I needed, what I was crying for.
Friend, maybe you feel like your cries are falling on deaf ears. Maybe you’re wondering what God is doing or why he isn’t showing up. Please remember that you have a Heavenly Father who loves you and is taking care of things. You’re not being ignored. You’re not alone. He hears your cries and he’s preparing what you need.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. -1 John 5:14
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