As hard as we try, our lives just don’t stick to the scripts we’ve written. As the bumper stickers tell us, “Stuff Happens.” Bad things happen to bad people, and they happen to nice people (like you & me), too. So we ask, “Why?”

 

The prophet Habakkuk groaned his protests to the Lord. “How long?” “Why?”

 

One thing that sufferers should not do is look for someone to blame, including blaming oneself. Jesus’ disciples once asked him whose fault it was that a man had been born blind. They wondered if it was he who was being punished by God, or if it was it his parents. Jesus’ reply brings me a lot of comfort:  “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. But this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.”

 

This side of Judgment Day we may or may not see what God is actually up to, what he accomplishes through our sufferings. We don’t need to know. We just take comfort in knowing that our Savior Jesus, a man “acquainted with grief,” is working it both ways, blessing the believers both through pleasure and hardship. Soon will come rest for weary souls.

 

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Straight talk.  Real hope.

10/27/2009 - Posted by R
Why is the bigest word that people say, Why did she die? or Grandma in the nursing home she not doing good, Why?, You lost your job? Why? Thank you opening the meaning of Why. I have a better understanding of why. Thats Why I pray. Why? He told me too, Call On Me In The Day Of Truble And I will Give You Rest. Thank you for a outstanding Topic, May God bless your work that you do for Him.