Is God Our Genie or Our Lord
When we grapple with unanswered
prayers
When we grow impatient with delayed
responses
When we don’t get what we want
or what we believe we deserve
When God is silent
When we don’t feel His presence
When we feel
Abandoned
Unseen
Unheard
Tossed aside
Forgotten
Rejected
Dejected
Powerless
Hopeless
Where is God
Who is this God
Is He
Good
Attentive
Caring
Loving
Faithful
Omniscient
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
When those are not our experiences
At least not now
Nor have they been for a while now
Sometimes for a long while
Where are You God
Where did You go
Where have You been
When the silence of God is
D E F E A N I N G
Who is God
Who is this God that we have believed
in
And held on to for so long
Why can’t He just answer our prayers
Give us what we ask
Especially when we are asking for things
that
Appear to be in accordance with
His will
Was taught us in the Bible
Reasonable
Easily accomplished by Him
Even unselfish
When we have done our part
To live right and righteously
To be faithful to Him
To live in obedience to His teaching
even when it was hard on us
We had to go against our culture and
pressures
and we lived right by the Bible’s
teaching
We have even been
Jeered at
Laughed at
Sneered at
Criticized
Called “Jesus Freaks”
Rejected
Demeaned
Ostracized
It is only “right”
That when we do right by God
He’d do right by us
Why can’t God just answer our prayers
When we ask
How we want them answered
Just do what we ask
God
Don’t You trust that we are asking
Out of good motives
Desires that
You’d be pleased with
You’d approve of
Righteous
Godly
Unselfish
Why can’t You just do as we ask
Just be Whom we want or need You to
be
Alright, alright
We’ll admit it
Why can’t You, God
Be our Genie
Do as we say and ask
We don’t have the capacity to do what
we’d like
But You do
After all, You are omnipotent
We do the asking
and You do the bidding
Life would be so much easier
That You’d do whatever we ask
When we ask
Just be our arms and legs
We’ll be the decision makers and You
be the Genie
What is this Lordship about
What does it mean that You are
Our Master and not just our Savior
That You are our Lord and not servant
What?
You are in control?
You know what is best for us
Even when we insist on our way
You are acting as the Good Parent
Not giving us what we want just because
we demand it
Enduring our ridicule
Our doubts toward You
Our colicky tantrums and anger toward
You
While holding us in Your loving arms
Even when we in our colic storm, we don’t
feel them
For You are not slow in answering
Your promise
But are patient
So more would come to repentance
Working out all things for our good
Even when we don’t see nor understand
"He Who
searches our hearts know the mind of the Spirit
Because the
Spirit intercedes for God's people
In accordance
with the will of God
And we know that
in all things
God works for the
good of those who love Him
Who have been
called according to His purpose..."
