We just finished our series called "The Big Man Upstairs" where we tried to answer 3 questions we ask God. Why Don't You Speak...? If You Loved Me...? What Do You Want From Me...? So many times we become frustrated when it doesn't feel like God is listening to us. We sometimes just want answers. Maybe God's is speaking to you but your not listening or you can't hear him. We put some much "noise" around us that we can't even think straight. God may be talking but we may not be listening. A lot of times we go through tough times in are lives and we don't understand why God is letting this happen. We get caught saying, "If you loved me God why am I going through this," or "why did this happen". We have to understand that God is on our side, and there's nothing you can do to separate God's love from you. (Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing) Every time we go to Walmart with our kids they always ask the same question, "Can we buy it?" and a lot of the times the answers, "NO". Then they give me this look like, I thought you loved me. What they don't understand is the whole picture. It's not that I don't love them or don't want them to have things, it's just not everything will make us happy, and maybe there's something better around the corner they don't see. The last question is sometime hard for us to shallow. We don't always what to hear the answer to "What do you want from me...?" God wants are everything, all of us. We are good at giving him parts or days but not everything we have. There was a movie that came out a few years ago called Facing the Giants that illustrates this point very well. The leader of the team had really lost heart and had given up. When the coach hears him he ask him to do a death crawl but this time he wants him to give his absolute best. He asked if he can go to the 50 yard line. He says he'll try. With the coach's cheering him on he makes it from end zone to end zone. (100 yards) All God wants is for us to give it everything we got. We might fall flat on our face sometimes, but we can get up and keep going. I hope that we come to love the Big Man Upstairs, and understand that the answers to the questions are right in front of us, maybe we just don't want to hear them.
