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This week in church, we talked about something I think many of us quietly struggle with but don’t always say out loud.
How easy it is to feel like God is not giving. We pray for healing for a loved one, answers when things are tough, or direction in our job, and when those prayers don’t unfold the way we hoped, it can leave us wondering if God is holding back.
We live in a time of instant gratification. We order something and it’s immediately delivered. We need an answer to a question, so we open our phone and there it is.
So when we don’t see immediate answers from God, it can feel confusing. We begin to measure God’s generosity by the things we asked for and didn’t receive.
But this week’s message was a powerful reminder that God’s generosity does not always look like our wish list.
Sometimes what we want in the moment is not what we truly need in the long run. God sees the whole picture when we can only see today.
When we step back and look at the big picture, it becomes clear that we serve a generous God. A God who gave us the ultimate gift, His Son. God sent Jesus to this world knowing exactly what it would cost. Knowing the pain, the suffering, and the sacrifice that would come. He gave anyway.
That kind of generosity goes far beyond material blessings or answered prayers on our timeline.
It’s a love that says, “I will give you what you need most, even when you don’t yet understand it.”
Through Jesus, we were given grace, forgiveness, hope, and eternal life. These gifts which are far greater than anything we could ask for.
So when we find ourselves feeling like God isn’t giving, maybe the question isn’t what He has withheld, but what He has already provided.
Sometimes gratitude shifts our hearts enough to see the blessings that were there all along.