How long, O Lord?
- Guest Writer - Proverbs 31
- Aug 3
- 2 min read
Have you ever wanted an answer to a prayer so badly?
When prayers are answered, it isn’t always in the way we are expecting. This happened to me recently. I have been praying for my child to be healed for a long time. This has not happened, I don’t know why - only God knows that. However God has changed my outlook on the situation.
Yes I still pray for healing but I also thank God for the gift that is my child, whom he has trusted me with and I have to trust that God knows the plans and purpose for my child's life.
We don’t always find the answers we want, we do however find the answers we need.
This could be after a long period of waiting and you may feel that your prayers are not being answered. Do not fear - God hears every one of your prayers - he is just asking us to be patient because he is using our waiting to shape our life and the lives of others around us.
We don’t always understand why things happen the way they do and that's okay. God is asking us to trust that he can use every situation to show his love for us and to those around us.
Throughout my walk with God, prayer has become an important part because
without prayer, I would be doing life on my own and the thought of that scares me.
When I bring things to God in prayer, I know that he will listen and answer because he has answered my prayers before - in many different ways: words, pictures and even songs.
Prayer hasn’t always been easy because I am not very good at the waiting part, I want an answer right away ... however 'me and God' are working on that.
As I am thinking about this, it reminds me of when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. They prayed to be set free, however they had to wait for God to send Moses for this to happen. God not only set them free, he also provided for them while they were in the wilderness and led them to the Promised Land.
God knows what we need before we say anything but he still wants us to come to him in prayer and ask.
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me. Psalm 13
