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..."