A couple of months ago, as Nehemiah lay on the couch, terribly sick,
I laid my hand on his forehead and began to pray with passion.

He’d heard me praying off and on over the hours since he had first got sick,
however, this time when I finished he weakly questioned,

“Why God not do it?” 

Nehemiah’s sweet bit-broken English still lingers and
I love hearing his tender voice.

No doubt, moms hate seeing their treasures sick, but somehow when
that particular child has already had to endure years of trauma,
there are no words for what all that does to this mama’s heart.


Nehemiah’s long journey home was a painful one and I just cannot
begin to express how thankful I am that he is home forever.
He is an integral part of our family and we couldn’t imagine our lives without him.

And so it was that Nehemiah had been so sick, dozing off and on…
that when he questioned, “Why God not do it?”  I stopped suddenly.

This guy of ours was doing some serious thinking!

But his next question was even more powerful:

“He just busy?”

I sat down and began to tenderly share a few of the the truths of
God’s word with our little guy.


Truths that never change!

And friends, this is the ultimate joy of adoption…sharing the life-changing
truths of our powerful and mighty tender-loving God.

I was so very thankful that our son was able to verbalize what
he had been wondering.  How often we adults keep these
thoughts to ourselves!

So why doesn’t God answer immediately?

Well sometimes actually, He does!!

But, of course, we all know He doesn’t always.

Sometimes His answer is, “not yet” or “wait” and actually sometimes
His answer is a gentle, “No.”

But here’s some of what I mentioned to our Nehemiah Judson.

God is not busy.
He hears every single word we whisper.
He actually even sees and hears our thoughts.
He cares.  
He’s moving.
He is faithful.
He has our best in store for us, even though we
live in a very broken and sinful world. 
He loves us every moment of every single day.
No matter what.
He is never, ever, ever too busy for us.

And so while we wait we have expectant hope –
the kind of hope that says,

“Thank you for bringing the answer – I praise you
that you are working even when I can’t see it.”

When we remember what we have seen God do in the past,
we are confidant that He will answer again.

And that He is working on our behalf, whether it seems like He is or not.

Today, what answer are you waiting for friend?

Be reminded – God’s moving on your behalf!

Even when you have been waiting a long time – when it is His timing –
the answer will come quickly – sometimes so quickly it will make heads spin!

In the meantime we must wait with expectancy – filled with faith and hope!

Remember when Paul and Silas were in jail?  They had been attacked by the crowd,
beaten and tossed into jail.


No doubt, they didn’t deserve to be there, yet God was working…
and while they waited they opted to sing praises to the Lord.

How often we feel that our ‘lot’ is unjust and we belly-ache and complain?

Yet, Paul and Silas chose to praise the King of Kings in spite of the circumstances and
suddenly, just about midnight, there was an earthquake of trembling and their chains
broke.

Suddenly!!

Can’t help but wonder if their praising Him in the midst of the prison 
sped the quake of release?