God is not absent - he works on a different scope and timescale. He does not just consider my needs, but also others' needs altogether. Not just now, but what might become.

"I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end."

(Ecclesiastes 3.10-11 NLT)

"But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake."

(2 Peter 3.8-9 NLT)

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

(Isaiah 55.8-9 NLT)

Lord,
please help me trust you
even when I cannot see you working

~

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