What I love about the people we read about in the Bible is that God doesn’t leave anything out. Paul encourages them to learn from what God has done, study his track record. Remember when Paul wrote this to the church in Rome, there wasn’t a New Testament, all they had was the Old Testament. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.”Įverything that was written before was to teach us. “Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. Romans 15:4 gives us a wonderful reminder, Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” ( Matthew 11:28-29). “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. In fact he invites you into his presence. Be certain today you can be open and honest before God. And when Jesus heard the question, he wasn’t offended. He didn’t know, so what did he do? He asked. “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?” ( Matthew 11:3). This John from his prison cell sent his disciples to ask Jesus a question. Jesus said of those born among women, there is no one greater than John the Baptist. He was there after having preached about the coming of the Messiah after having baptized Jesus and declared him the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world after seeing the Holy Spirit descend on him and hearing the voice from heaven declare this is my Son with whom I am well pleased after seeing and hearing of the miracles. In Matthew 11 John the Baptist was in prison. Whether it’s fear, anger, worry, concern, joy, sadness, doubt, uncertainty – he can handle it. Don’t worry, he can handle every emotion you have. Prayer only works if you are completely honest and transparent with God. 1 Peter 5:7 says “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” That word in the Greek means your cares, your concerns, your worries in other words…everything.

You have every right to come before him with everything you don’t understand, in fact he encourages it. My response to that has always been why not? God is your heavenly Father. I have often heard people say you can’t question God. Photo credit: ©Getty Images/eternalcreative Keeping these two things in mind, I want to give you five things to do to help you understand God better when he doesn’t make sense. In other words, he’s going to get you there, he just may take a different route to do it. This means that the methods and strategies that God has designed to fulfill this good plan in your life go far beyond your thought process. In fact, they are far above or elevated over our thoughts and ways. In Isaiah 55:8-9 God reminds us that his thoughts and ways are not our ways. The second reason God doesn’t make sense sometimes is because his thinking is far above ours. The promise of Romans 8:28 is that God will work everything for our good, not that everything will always feel good. Knowing that God our father loves us and he has the best planned for us, we expect it all to go well. After all his father loved him and he had no reason to think otherwise. I don’t know if Joseph fully understood the dream but it probably created in him an expectation of good things happening in his life. God gave him a dream in Genesis 37 where his brothers and his parents would eventually bow down to him. Consider for a moment Joseph in the Old Testament. Quite frankly when you hear that God is good and he has good plans in store for your life, you generally come to a simple conclusion…everything that happens in my life is going to be good. There are two reasons why sometimes we feel that God’s plan is going south in our lives.

Bible verse about life not making sense