When God Doesn’t Understand

I am sure you have been here

“Where?” You ask.

Right where you are now

Facing a real up hill task.

And they say God is around

“Where?” you ask once more.

Right where you are now

Just like He always was before.

“Don’t kid me,” you say.

“I’m not in the mood for joking,

‘Cause if He is

He lacks genuine understanding.

He sure doesn’t understand

If indeed He has a plan

And it can’t be anything grand

If it can’t relieve this man.

What good is God to me

If He cannot understand

Or even show that he does?

Why, He is no more than a man.

For right now the way I feel

Is that God lacks understanding

And certainly can’t grant to me

What my situation is demanding.”

Cool your heals my brother,

The mere fact you’re still here

Shows that God understands

Or you would long have disappeared.

See that talk you just put down

And the fact that you’re still around!

It is enough to make God frown!

You would have to be a clown…

To have said all you just said

And still here ‘cause you’re not dead;

This says God understands

And that His heart is not made of lead.

  

If anyone had a reason

To believe God didn’t understand

Surely it must be Jesus, His Son

When He came to earth as a man.

As a matter of fact you’d recall

He even cried to let the cup pass

But resigned to Father’s will

And to a cross was nailed at last.

Like you he could have said

God doesn’t understand

But he knew only too well

That this was God’s divine plan.

Man’s wisdom is folly to God

Who sees all and knows all,

The whole picture lies bare before Him

And he never makes a wrong call.

While it seems He doesn’t understand

That is only in the mind of man

Whose shortsightedness regarding life

Is a defect common to the human clan.

If we understood all that God does

We would be just like Him

But alas this could never be

Because of the awful state of sin.

Sin is exacerbated by selfishness

Which blinds us to the need of others,

Putting ourselves first in everything

And nothing else becomes a bother.

Such that we don’t understand

But eventually blame God

And such an accusation

Is spurted on by Satan, the Fraud.

The truth be told God understands

He must; after all He is not a man,

Back in eternity He devised a plan

And implemented it on a set time span.

Creation was at the beginning

God’s judgment comes at the end

So if you feel God doesn’t understand

You are sadly mistaken my friend.

One last thing I should tell you

Something I am sure you know,

There is no better friend than God is,

My Bible tells me so.

While I may not understand

He has worked it all out for me,

All I need do is trust Him

And on Him depend totally.

My misunderstanding will pass away

With the coming of the end

There and then I will understand

Why He chose to call me His friend.

In the meantime I’ll ride it out with Him

For there is no better choice

And as I face the storms ahead

I’ll listen calmly to His voice.

That voice that soothes me in my anger

That cools me during the heat

And tells me all I need do with my problems

Is to place them at His feet.

He doesn’t understand I hear you say

In Him you need to trust,

In trusting the way becomes quite clear

When God takes away our fuss.

You’ll understand it better by and by

God understands it all today,

From the beginning He saw to the end

He is qualified to lead the way.

Stewart Russell © September 2017