WHY?

Isaiah 45:11 (BBE)
The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

Why! Why! why! If we take stock of the number of times we ask why in a sentence or a day, we will see how much of self is in everything we do.
Do you know how many times we ask God why me, why should I, why this, and why that?
Questioning God at every level is an exhibition of our lack of trust in Him. The Lord says in Romans 2:28 that He will work everything out for our good, but do we take Him at His word and trust Him to carry out His plans?
We question God’s integrity and faithfulness each time we question His word or what we perceive as His inaction.
Instead of why it should be I trust you, Lord!
If the Lord wants us to know and understand something, He’ll tell us, who says we must have all the answers anyway or that we need to understand everything? We don’t! and we certainly don’t need to know all things because we can’t and 1 Corinthians 13:9 says our knowledge is partial and incomplete.
We just need to trust God.
We have a choice to give in to what ails us and give up on God or we lean on His strength to stay strong and trust Him.
It’s just not fair! Life is so unfair! It’s not right!
Why! Why! Why!
Enough with the questions already.
We should not rebelliously question God’s ways, Paul quoted Jeremiah 18:1-6 in Romans 9:20-21 where he emphasised that God has the right to do what he wishes with his creation. As He states in Psalm 75:7, God decides who, what, when and why things happen, the Lord’s standard is different from ours as He does not think or act like us according to Isaiah 55:8-9, so, when we question God, we are effectively saying we doubt Him and do not trust Him to have our best interest at heart.
We don’t and can’t trust God, who can you trust?
We must learn to declare Proverbs 3:5-6 amid a storm and say, Lord, I trust you, I will not doubt, fear, or distrust your plans neither will I try to understand everything, I know you have a good plan for me, so I’ll leave things in your capable hands.
I don’t have to know why you do the things you do; I know you are good, and you will work everything out for our good in the land of the living as stated in Psalm 27:9.
I Samuel 2:3 describe God as the one whose knowledge is unsearchable, and through whom all our actions are determined and directed by his counsel. How do we then even begin to question the God whose ways are perfect and blameless according to Palm 18:30?
Yet we blame God for all of societies failings and all our troubles, even the self-inflicted ones and then we question Him on why things are the way they are, why He’s not doing anything to set things right and why we can’t give Him our all because He performance according to our standard is below par.
Reiterating Jeremiah 18:1-6, will the creation say to the creator why?
Do we dare to question the creator over what He does? Why!
Shalom

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