~ Why Why Why ...WHY

This is the lament of all of us at some time.  Life is rarely fair and we often feel let down or just out of synch with where we feel we should be.

Unfortunately the doings of the day have wiped what I thought that I had this morning when I got up.  It isn’t that the thoughts have become redundant; they’re not, but just that I have lost the flow.  It is my fault for not making more copious notes.  It is my fault for letting myself get distracted.  That is the “why” of my question for today.

This morning I was thinking about how the enemy can easily frustrate our peace by the simple device of a question.  As you may recall from Genesis 3 the first time that mankind met him the question Satan asked was.   “Did God say?” then he went on to suggest that God was keeping the goodies for Himself.

Not much has changed over the ages.  He still accuses Father of doing unspeakable things to mankind, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is just an example of natural events that Satan would like to drop on Fathers toes.  But more to the point his most common question is “why”.

It is much easier to try to get us to question our own motivation or make us feel that we have been put upon by others or, even more significant ignored by God.  There is an element in the human psyche which responds to the name “I” and this makes it easy to make us feel put out.

Of course there is an answer to this trick of the devil.  One supplied by Father Himself, it is found in many parts of His word the Bible.

In the Psalms David the king spends a lot of time agonizing about the injustice of his plight but he also spends a lot more in praise of God who redeems him.  In one of the Psalms but by the Sons of Korah we find the words.

“He says, “Be still, and know that I am God

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth.”

These words occur after the previous 9 verses in which war and desolation are the normal but God is in control He is their fortress and their comfort. 

This is the truth that the question “why“ seeks to undermine.  We are meant to be in relationship with Father and rely upon His loving mercies.  He is our vindication not what we try to use as a justification for what we are doing.

Father desires to be “exalted in the earth”.  This is what we have as a calling, each of us are here to live with and for Father so that through our lives He will be glorified to those around us.  Father has a purpose for each of us in the season of His choosing.  This is for a temporary time for many of us but for some it is for a lifetime

All of us have a call to mission but that call is wrapped up in our unique relationship with Father when the enemies of God try to get us to ask why we need to look to Him who vindicates, say we trust Him, and then ask ourselves the question because sometimes Father does ask us to make changes in our life.