day five.

“If you were to complain to God right now, what would your complaint be?”

i really do try to live my life as positive as possible. i try to be happy and content with every “card” i am handed and with every aspect of my life. i try to not be a needy, miserable person. so this question is hard to think of an answer to. i truly feel satisfied with my life - i really don’t feel like i have any complaints about my actual life or the way it is going. i’m very happy with who i am and where i’m at at this point in time. so my complaint, i don’t think, would really be so much about my life per se.

i think i’d complain to God about the return of Jesus! i’d complain that i’m impatiently awaiting the return of Christ - for the opportunity to look Him in the face, bow down before Him, and worship for the rest of my life. i’d also probably complain about pushing more people into dedicating their lives to the Lord! i’d love for Him to just be able to take the non-believers and show them - once and for all - His realness and His burning compassion for His creation: US!

“In what ways, if any, have you been perplexed by God’s response to your complaining?”

one thing i’ve come to realize is that God doesn’t always answer our prayers flat out / directly / in the way we want. God will answer our prayers according to His will for us, and will do so in which ever way He feels the need to do so, in accordance to His will for our lives. it is times like those that He leaves me slightly puzzled. i’m left puzzled because, yeah, maybe looking back on a certain time period we can see God answering our prayers in the way He does, but while we are currently in the time when we need His answer, it’s hard for us to see how He is working. (not really sure if this is worded the way i want, but it makes sense to me haha). it is the same when we complain to the Lord: He answers our complaints in His own way, according to His will for our lives, and that can sometimes leave me a little perplexed.