Sometimes I wonder what God is doing…

Do you ever find yourself asking, “God, what are you doing?” Do you ask the question in quiet wonder…doubt and confusion…or maybe even frustrated anger? If we are honest with the answer, at one time or another, it is probably all three. Romans 8, a mountaintop chapter, ends with a glorious promise that nothing can separate us from God’s love and favor. But, back down in the valley of reality we wonder if that can really be true. Do God’s purposes ever fail? Did God’s purposes for Israel fail? Or, to put it another way, if God did not fulfill his specific promises to Israel, what makes you think he will fulfill his promises to us? That’s the question that sets up a deeper dive into God’s faithful purposes in Romans Chapters 9-11—because sometimes God is doing more than we think.