Why God andHow long Lord

<p>WHY GOD AND HOW LONG LORD? (Questions from Habakkuk to God) Whether we are discussing events in the Old Testament or in the early New Testament church there were two certain questions for which it was hard for people to get an answer to from God, and it is the same in our present-day situation. Those two questions - WHY has God done something (or not done something) and asking God WHEN he is going to do something. The answer we usually get from God is WAIT – AND YOU WILL SEE! </p> <p>In due course God will let us know why the timing was the way it was and why you had to wait, and why he allowed things to happen. But there is one thing that you can know for certain – and that is that God IS at work in the situation and that we must never give up trusting him to bring about his will for us.  No matter what the situation happens to be, God is telling us to live by faith, trusting him totally. We can’t trust God totally and be anxious at the same time. He wants us to bring our anxieties and doubts to him but at some point we have to be able to laugh at our own anxiety.</p> <p>What God wants us to get is a greater revelation of who he is, not just a better explanation from him of what he is doing (show me the science please Lord – the formula - so that I can be confident about pulling this off myself when I need to). No, 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 have a living hope. On the journey of patience he shows us his goodness and what he is doing by the many little things that happen - the odd happenstances. He guides us with his eye. He then doesn’t have to drag us along like a horse or a mule (Psalm 32:8). </p> <p>There is the story in the Old Testament of a man called Habakkuk. Everything seemed to be going wrong and the prophet thought that God had forgotten them. They had been terrified by the cruel oppression of the Assyrians and come throug