Why?

 
As I sit out on the porch, I asked the Lord the same thing that most people ask when life gets tough. “Why?” The world asks, “Why does a loving God allow bad things to happen to good people?” And this is what I’ve come to learn this past month. We are not God and it’s not really our place to even ask such a thing, but God realizes our humanity and deals with us lovingly. So if God allowed his own son from heaven to hang on a cross, are we exempt from that?  No. It is not because he doesn’t love us but because he wants to make something out of us. But here’s a different perspective God spoke to me this morning about. 

All of us have heard kids who get to a certain age where they ask why allll the time. They nag and just constantly ask “why does that happen” or “why this?”when they get in trouble. But often times their parents  will say, “Because I said so.” And I think God wants us to get to a place where we are struggling in our trials and just hard things in life and when we ask “why” out of impatience or aggravation... God can say, “because I said so.” And that should be enough for us. It should be enough to obey him and stop asking questions. Let us accept his work and correction to make us who he wants us to be with a humble heart and when he says, “because I said so.” We can nod our head and obey the path that the Lord wants us to be on. 

A child who trusts his father will be content with that answer because he knows the parent has a reason for the discipline and lessons that he is trying to teach. We must be the same. In order to obey God, we must trust God, so that when he leads us on a path that makes us question, we can rest assured that he has a plan for us. 

Natalie