Excuse the cheesy title.

It's incredible how much more sense God makes when you think of Him as Father Almighty. When we don't understand why something has happened, when we don't understand the way God has answered or seemingly ignored our prayers, we can remember our parents. When we were young, we didn't understand why we couldn't eat candy for dinner. We didn't understand why we couldn't go out to DC with our friends without our parents. We didn't understand curfews or rules or punishments. We believed our parents were there solely to make our lives miserable.

As we get older, we understand the rules a little more. Later, we may make the same rules all over again for our kids, even with the same punishments.

So it is that we don't always understand God. We must simply trust that He is Almighty (which isn't really so simple.) Sometimes we may see later through mistakes or near-mistakes how very right God was and is. But not always. And sometimes we may understand more as we deepen our spiritual relationship with Him. But not always.

Perhaps in Heaven, when we are one with Him, we will understand.

But, until then, we'll have to trust that He is God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all that is seen and unseen. And, unlike our earthly fathers, we can trust Him 100% as our omnescient God.