“Why…?”
This little three-letter word is used numerous times throughout the Scriptures. So many I didn’t have the patience to count them in my concordance. I’m told that there are countless questions asked in the book of Job alone; one commentary said over 400. Someone has said, “It’s all right to ask God a question, but it is wrong to question Him.”
I realize asking God, “Why?” does not seem the “Spiritual” thing to do, but it is hard for some of us poor souls to deny our humanity. And I, for one, am grateful our Lord understands this, even if the callused super-saints do not. I know a person who hung on a cross, as man’s representative, asking God, “Why?”
Many of our sincere and tearful questions, I have concluded, will remain unanswerable and unsolvable until we meet the “Answer Man” face to face. It is then, and only then, that we, like the Queen of Sheba, when asking Solomon her hard questions, was satisfactorily answered. Even so, “A Greater than Solomon,” will resolve all of ours. As the song says, “I’ll ask the reason; He’ll tell me why, when we talk it over in the bye-and-bye.” During the interval between now and then, we’ll just have to rest in the fact that He is a good and merciful God, and that “He doeth all things well.”
Life’s puzzle can only be finished in Heaven; He kept back the final pieces so that He could show us the completed and magnificent picture when we arrive Home!
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