Is God Our Fairy Godmother?

Ilike to tell God how it should be. How it should all work out. Okay, Lord, this is what I want. And this is how I should get it. It’s only one way. I pray my will onto the Father. Thus sayeth, Wendy, do thou.

Me: Lord, here’s the plan. I need this to happen and the only way I can see it working out, is if you follow my instructions.

God: I love you dear daughter, but no.

Me: But Lord, you don’t understand. I really need this to happen and it won’t happen any other way.

God: No.

Me: Don’t you love me? How come you say you’ll give us good gifts and you won’t give me this?

God: No.

Me: (sobbing) God I need you. I need you so badly. Please help me.

God: I see all things. I know all things. Let me do my work.

Me: (very quietly) Okay.

God isn’t Santa Claus. Though, at times, I kind of wish He were. He’s not the fairy godmother of our lives, waving his magic wand, granting us our wishes. God wants to mold us and shape us into His image. He never misses an opportunity to teach us. Never. Every answer to prayer is a learning experience.

Our lives are a yielding to God. We began to drift away. and God calls us back. We have a car accident that we walk away from. A near miss. Our children are in cars with drunk drivers only to get pulled over by cops, another near miss. We cry out for God to give us that one person we think will be perfect in our lives and He says no. Only, to find out later, that person was FAR from perfect. God did have another person picked out and because He knows all and sees all, that other person is a perfect match. We fit together like peas and carrots.

Every time we drift, God reminds us who He is. I always think of Job. When he sat on an ash heap, scratching his sores, he cried out to God and God answered him with, Do you know who I am? Seems a strange answer to a desperate prayer. “Get me off this ash heap Lord!” “Take away these sores, Lord!” I’m sad, Lord! And God says, “Do you know who I am?’

Do we know who He is? Do we know who we are speaking to? God proceeds to tell Job exactly who He is.

God asked the same question of Peter. “Who do the people say that I am?” He asks Peter (Luke 9:18). Then He asks Peter who does he say Jesus is. Peter declares Him to be the Christ (Luke 9:20).

Do we know who God is? In our minds, do we view Him as a fairy godmother, here to grant our every wish. Or, do we really know Him?

As I walk this earth, raising children, and praying all the time, I don’t think I know God. I would like to say that I do, but I don’t think I really do. I know Him as my Savior. I know the Holy Spirit lives within me, because I am a believer. But I think I’ve just scratched the surface, of really knowing Who God is. It’s what I seek to do, but not all the time. I get caught up in meals to be cooked, groceries to be bought, toilets to be cleaned, etc, etc. Often, I find myself slowly drifting away, only to have God call me back and bring Him to the forefront of my mind.

Hopefully, you are better at it than me. Just be warned, if you are a true child of God and you drift, He will come find you and bring you back. You don’t want to be too far away when He does, because it can be painful.