The Question Is…

After reading many prayer requests, I realised that many asked the “why” question. Throughout life, we may experience sorrows for which there are no adequate explanations. Some are difficult events with far-reaching effects, while others are personal, private tragedies that alter our individual lives and families forever. We want to know why, but we seem to find more questions than answers. Yet even as we struggle with “why?”, God extends His unfailing love to us.

On October 31, 2014, an experimental spacecraft broke apart during a test flight and crashed into the Mojave Desert. The co-pilot died while the pilot miraculously survived. Investigators determined what happened, but not why. The title of a newspaper article about the crash began with the words “Questions remain.”

When Job lost his children and his wealth in a single day, he sank into an angry depression and resisted any attempted explanations by his friends, even though he still had questions. Yet he held out hope that someday there would be an answer from his God. Even in the darkness, Job could say, “God knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold”.

Today, as we face life’s unanswered questions, we can find help and hope in God’s love and promises – that one day there will be a personal and direct touch from God, when every tear and perplexity, every oppression and distress, every suffering and pain, and wrong, and injustice will have a complete, and ample, and overwhelming explanation. Until then hold on by faith that the answer is on the way.

Yahweh, thank You for my faith and trust in You, that even though I have questions about life and why things have happened the way they have, my love for You hasn’t wavered. Father, there is one thing I can’t and won’t question and that is Your love for me. God, give me wisdom and understanding today to accept what I can’t explain, believing You know what’s best for me. In Jesus’ name! Amen.