WHY?!
We ask it in so many ways.
Why should this be so?
Why did this happen...?
Why didn’t this hapen?
Why do I feel this way?
Why didn’t you stop this God?
Why did you allow this to happen?We ask ‘why’, trying to better understand our experiences,
our situation and our world.
So may questions, often asked in anger, in grief, in bewilderment,
in brokenness, in rejection.
WHY?!
Why pain?
Why do people hurt each other?
Why am I here?
Why do I feel so along and rejected?
Why does love hurt so?Jesus you came to answer our ‘whys’.
You lived and spoke a truth that gave meaning and substance
to these ‘whys’ that lay heavy on our heart.
You loved us so much that you personally experienced each of our ‘whys’.
You felt pain, you were hurt by others, you were alone and rejected, you loved even though the love you gave demanded everything you had to give.
I am not alone when I ask these ‘whys’ of life.
I am embraced by a God who truly understands and knows my ‘whys’.
A God in whom I can entrust each and every ‘why’ to redeem, to heal, to resolve.
WHY?!
I still ask many ‘whys’ in this life, and frustratingly I cannot answer many of them.
But maybe, just maybe, there are ‘whys’ I ask in this life that are burdens too heavy and hard for me to carry right now.
Maybe , just maybe, my llving God in his grace is holding these ‘whys’ in his hands until I can know and can understand.
Ultimatley the ‘whys’ of this life must be asked.
But I am learning that the greater wonder is that they can be let go.
Our ‘whys’ can be handed over to one big enough to carry these questions for us for he has experienced and answered every ‘why’ there ever was.
What heppend when we hand over our ‘whys’ of this life?
I have found that rest comes.
Maybe even a ‘what now?’
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