My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46)
"Sometimes it seems that Allah is not listening to me." These words come from a woman who is trying to stay strong in her walk with God, while she has to deal with her drinking husband. Those words are also the cry of the hearts of many believers. For 18 years, this woman asked Allah to change her husband. However, it never happened.
What is in our mind when we repeatedly ask God for something good, something that can easily glorify His name, but He does not answer? Does He listen to us, or not?
Let us look at the life of our Redeemer. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed for hours in sorrow, pouring out His heart, and pleading, "Let this cup pass from before Me" (Matthew 26:39). However, His Father's answer was a clear "No." In order to provide salvation, God had to send Jesus to die on the cross. Even though Jesus felt that the Father had abandoned Him, He prayed fervently and with feeling because He believed that God was listening.
When we pray, we may not see how God is working, or we may not understand how He is going to bring good through all of this. Therefore, we must believe in Him. We must give up our rights and let Allah do what is best for us.
We must surrender what we do not know to Him who knows all. He is listening and dealing with the matter in His own way -JDB
WHEN WE KNEEL TO PRAY
GOD CLOSES HIS EARS TO LISTEN
* Take from Daily Reflections