His Glory My Joy, a blog of Author Luana Ehrlich

A newly remodeled house burns to the ground. A long-awaited child is stillborn. A businessman dies on the day he retires.

It doesn’t make sense.

Abraham waiting twenty-five years before his promised child is born. A chosen people suffering in slavery 400 years before freedom comes.

It doesn’t make sense.

The son of God becomes a man and lives among His creation. His creation despises and rejects Him.

It doesn’t make sense.

The One who never sinned takes on the sin of all mankind. Their punishment becomes his punishment.

It doesn’t make sense.

No, God’s ways don’t always make sense, and neither should our response.

Habakkuk, an Old Testament prophet, didn’t understand what God was doing, but after voicing his confusion, this was his response. “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail, and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.” Habakkuk 3:17-18.

When God doesn’t make sense, we are to rejoice in the Lord.

No, it doesn’t make sense, but as Paul said, “What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18.

Eternity, when all will make sense.