Sermon Series Blog: When You Just Don’t Get It Pt.3

When You Don’t Get What God Is Doing

Trusting God’s Timing, Purpose, and Silence

Have you ever felt like heaven went quiet? You’ve prayed, obeyed, and done everything right — but it seems like God is silent? You’re not alone. Every believer faces moments when we don’t understand what God is doing. But here’s the truth that anchors us: Even when you can’t trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

1. God’s Ways Are Higher Than Our Understanding

Isaiah 55:8–9 reminds us that God’s thoughts and ways are higher than ours. We want clarity, control, and quick answers — but God invites us into something deeper: trust.

Think of Job. He lost everything, yet declared, “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” (Job 1:21)
Job didn’t get the why, but he clung to the who. He discovered that God’s goodness never left him, even in the pain.

It’s the same faith that inspired Horatio Spafford to write “It Is Well with My Soul” after losing his four daughters at sea. Standing over the waters of tragedy, he penned words of surrender — not because he understood, but because he trusted.

Faith isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about holding on to the One who does.

2. God’s Timing Is Perfect — Even When It Feels Delayed

Sometimes it’s not that we don’t understand what God is doing, but why it’s taking so long.
When Jesus heard Lazarus was sick, He didn’t rush — He waited. By the time He arrived, Lazarus was dead. To everyone else, it looked too late. But Jesus wasn’t late; He was right on time for a resurrection.

God’s timing is never off. What feels like delay is often divine preparation.
Abraham and Sarah waited 25 years for their promise. Pastor Andrew Brunson spent two years in prison wondering if God had abandoned him — yet through it, revival spread and faith deepened.

When God delays, He’s not denying. He’s developing.
He’s building beneath the surface what will one day stand strong above it.

3. God’s Silence Doesn’t Mean His Absence

Between the Old and New Testaments, God was silent for 400 years. No prophets, no visions — just waiting. But while heaven seemed quiet, God was setting the stage for Jesus.
He was aligning languages, roads, and nations so the gospel could spread to the ends of the earth.

Silence wasn’t absence — it was preparation.
The same is true in your life. When you can’t hear God, trust that He’s still working. Every unanswered prayer, every season of waiting, every quiet moment is a brushstroke in the masterpiece He’s painting.

Trust the Builder

Like the Golden Gate Bridge, God often builds deep foundations before anything visible rises.
You may not see progress yet, but He’s working beneath the surface.
When you can’t trace His hand — trust His heart.

Because His heart was proven at the cross, where what looked like defeat became victory, and what felt like silence became salvation.

So today, thank Him — not just for what you can see, but for what He’s still building.