And we have Joseph in the Bible who, no doubt, for 13 years was praying, "Lord, why was I sold into slavery? Why has it taken 13 years for me to discover the reason for all this pain in my life?" Then suddenly he discovers that he is going to be vice president of Egypt, he’s going to save his family from starvation, he’s going to be the heir of the Messiah—and now it all makes sense! But in those 13 years it didn’t.
Now we think about possible reasons why God doesn’t give answers, and sometimes we think of timing: "Well it’s just not the time yet. He’s storing all my prayers up in a bottle. He’s going to pour the prayers out in due time. And so the time will come."
Author: John Piper
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