Not shortened - but

Separated from God

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened,

That it cannot save;

Nor His ear heavy,

That it cannot hear.

But your iniquities have separated you from your God;

And your sins have hidden His face from you,

So that He will not hear. – Isaiah 59.1-2

One thing that we can be sure of is that God is never going to change. His power never weakens and his reach never shortens. Nothing is too hard for Him and nothing is out of His reach.

What that means is that if we don’t sense God working it is because we have something wrong with us. God is able, but we don’t trust Him. God is able, but we don’t ask Him. God is able, but we make things worse by trying to do things our own way.

God’s hand is not shortened – but your sins have separated you from Him. He will not hear you. When we ‘regard iniquity in our hearts the Lord will not hear us.’

If there is a problem with seeing God work the problem is that that our sin is getting in the way. It may not even be an open blatant sin. It may be as simple as the sin of not trusting God to do what He says He can do.

Obviously, God does not always do what we want. He doesn’t always do things our way. But we can never doubt His power. Whatever is out there He can do. All I need to do is to make sure that my heart is right and my walk is right and then I can know that He is doing what I need.