We ask why a lot!

If you have lived with a three year old you know what it is to be asked “how come?” or “Why” every moment of the day. It’s cute the first hundred times but not so much after that. Yet, why is how we learn. It is the process of understanding that which is not for us. It good to be inquisitive. It also assume we think we can understand the answer.

My mother took a fall this week bruising her chest. She suffered no broken bones but is very sore. She will send a lot of time trying to answer why such an event happened. At first it is good but then it becomes taxing. That quest for understanding events in our lives is often unsatisfying because sometimes there is no answer that leads to our understanding. This is brought to the surface when the answer to why is one that we don’t like and therefore do our best to not accept. There are accidents with no easy direct cause and for some that is very difficult to understand.

Sometimes our search for understanding leads us to jump to easy and quick conclusions that in honesty may be true but also may not be true. In tragedy some of our most callused remarks are intended to bring understanding and therefore comfort. However, they don’t because they simple are not true. Our search for easy understandable answers can lead us to speak heartache into lives that are already hurting. We have become so egotistical that we assume we can understand everything and in that understanding prove we really know very little. It’s sad.

Jesus said “Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed, for they will be filled. Matthew 5:6 HCSB

How will that happen when our question cannot be answered? God spoke to Jeremiah these words.

² “The Lord who made the earth,^[a] the Lord who forms it to establish it, Yahweh is His name, says this: ³ Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:2-3 HCSB

Is that not like God to say call to me, I am the God who made you and everything around you, I know this, call to me and I will tell you what you do not know. Now hear this there is no promise to answer you specific question but to answer what you do not know. Maybe an even greater question than the one you are asking.

How about That?

Why would God do that?

Because he loves us so!

In HIS Service and Yours,

 

Bro George