Why does God do the things He does? We can only know so much. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, He reminds us in Isaiah 55. Neither are His ways our ways. We just want the thing we want. We want the thing fixed. God wants His image formed in us. He wants everyone saved. He’s working out His redemptive plan among billions of people. We’re thinking about ourselves and our small sphere of influence.

God is thinking of you too. He works on the grand scale, but also cares for the little details of our lives.

One of my favorite ways God helps with the little things is when I can’t get something open. When one of the big, strong men in my house can’t turn a lid and get it open easily, I ask for it. I ask the Father’s help, and then I turn it open without any strain.

He is our help. He cares.

So when God doesn’t seem to be helping…what’s going on?

John 11 gives us a couple of glimpses into the heart and mind of Christ, the heart and mind of God.

Verse five says that Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Verse six says, “So, when He heard that Lazarus was ill, He stayed two days longer.”

Because Jesus loved their family, every one of them, He chose to delay coming to help. It was out of love that He didn’t come speedily to the rescue.

When the help that you feel you desperately need doesn’t come right away, do you thank God for showing you such love?

Jesus tells us that Lazarus’ illness was so that Jesus would be glorified through it.

We are created for God’s glory. It’s our life purpose to bring God glory.

We’re to bring God glory, so…, so we give thanks. So we trust. So we wait with expectation that our good and loving God is being good and loving and absolutely perfect in all His ways.