“God is good, all is well.” That was the text message I sent to several prayer warrior friends recently after my wife’s biopsy reports came back as benign. It was intended as a message of joy declaring God’s goodness and love for those who are seeking Him. And it was just that until several days later when one of those warriors asked a poignant question: “What would your text have read if it wasn’t good news?”This question raised a few more. Would a negative report have negated the goodness of God? Would a negative reported have meant our prayers went unheard? Then the age old question, why does God answer some prayers and not others?
After wrestling with these questions here is what I believe: God is good and nothing can negate that. Our prayers are always heard, but not always answered according to our design nor in our time frame.
I did finally answer my friend’s original question. If all had not been well, I think, I hope, I pray I would have answered: All is not well, but we serve an awesome and faithful God.
Come to think of it, all isn’t well, but we do serve an awesome and faithful God!
Thinking out loud, RT
R.T. searcher, seeker, sojourner. Not all who wander are lost, maybe temporarily disoriented, but not lost.
