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If God really loved me, why did He let this happen?

When we're waiting for God's deliverance, it can be devastating. Well, today Pastor Greg

Laurie offers hope. It's hard to see through eyes that are filled with tears. But know this,

His delays are not necessarily his denials because Ecclesiastes 311 says he makes all things beautiful

in his time. So a note today might turn into a yes tomorrow.

Humans tend to be impatient by nature and technology is made at worst. We can't wait a week

to receive a letter anymore, send a fax? No, nobody does that either, too slow. Send an email,

better yet a text, and make sure you abbreviate every word you can, LOL.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out, we need to have a opposite mindset in our

relationship with God. We need to wait on God's timing and trust that His timing is divinely perfect.

Alright, well let's grab our Bibles and turn to John chapter 11 and the title of my message is

when God seems late. My grandchildren have some rabbits too in particular, fuzzy and cotton.

And they've had many litter. In fact, they just had another and that makes around, I don't know,

80 bunnies that have come from this couple. And so fuzzy and cotton. Well, sadly the other day,

my granddaughter, Ali, came in crying because fuzzy died. And this is heartbreaking for a little child.

And so I tried to, you know, put the best perspective on it. I could. I said, well, fuzzy lived a

long life and left us many bunnies. And of course, we all wonder what happens to our animals.

Will we see them in the afterlife? And I said, well, you know, we don't know. But one day,

the Bible tells us that we're going to have super cool pets. That's what I said to her. It's true

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