| "Why is life given to a man
whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? For
sighing comes to me instead of food; my groans
pour out like water. What I feard has come upon
me; what I dreaded has happened to me. I have no
peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only
turmoil."
Job 3:23-26 |
"If
God couldn't handle my ranting, my ravings, then
he really isn't God. And if he is God then he
will show me." Why?
Why would a
devout follower of the Lord be cut off with no
explanation? What good could possibly come out of
this?
Recently that
mother said, "My prayer is that we will know
God's presence, even when we do not understand
his ways."
Suffering is not
necessarily a punishment for a believer. After
all, plenty of very bad people live a long life
and seem to never suffer at all.
 We
cannot always understand the why.
But
we can lay hold of the Who. No matter what
happens to us. No matter what the loss,
God’s hand is still stretched out to us.
The Bible does not
promise the absence of grief – only the presence of God:
"Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress, my eyes
grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief." (Psalm 31:9) |
