John 11:32

Mary and Martha could not understand what their Lord was doing. Each of them had said to Him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died” (vv. 21, 32). And behind their words we seem to read their true thoughts: “Lord , we do not understand why You waited so long to come or how You could allow the man You love so much to die. We do not understand how You could allow such sorrow and suffering to devastate our lives, when Your presence might have stopped it all. Why didn’t You come? Now it’s too late, because Lazarus has been dead four days!” But Jesus simply had one great truth in answer to all of this. He said, in essence, “You may not understand, but I am telling you that if you believe , you will see.”

Abraham could not understand why God would ask him to sacrifice his son, but he trusted Him. Then he saw the Lord’ s glory when the son he loved was restored to him. Moses could not understand why God would require him to stay forty years in the wilderness, but he also trusted Him. Then he saw when God called him to lead Israel from Egyptian bondage.