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WHY DOES GOD NOT TELL US WHY?
We have been reading through the book of Job during our Family Devotions each day. We came to chapter 41 where God speaks to Job about Leviathan. To meet this creature is to dance with death. He is impervious to all weapons and enemies. No one is brave enough to confront him. Then God states: “Everything under heaven belongs to me!” In other words, even this mightiest creature is pliable in God’s hands. We will never fully understand all God’s greatness and His ways.God abruptly ends this discourse of 34 verses about Leviathan but gives Job no answer to the “why” of all that he has suffered and endured. He doesn’t explain to Job how Satan came to Him and challenged Him to allow him to attack him and how God removed the protecting hedge He had around Job.
Job 42:10 says: “And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.” But He never explained the why of all he suffered.
I know that each one of you have faced trials and tribulations in different ways. You may be struggling with a difficult situation right now. You wonder why. Why is God allowing this to happen? What have I done to deserve this? Why did God take this loved one from me? The questions go round and round in your mind, never ending.
Dear fellow wives and mothers, can I remind you that you may never know why. Many times you will never receive an answer. If we knew why these hardships and sufferings happen to us, we wouldn’t need to trust God. God wants us to learn to trust Him, no matter what. God is God. We are not. If we were to know the answer to every question, we’d be like God Himself.
The whole point of our Christian life is learning to trust God, even in the dark. The Scripture says: “The just shall live by faith” (Hebrews 10:38). We don’t live by sight. We don’t live by knowing the answers to every question. We live by faith nd trust.
What did Job confess in the midst of his terrible suffering? “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15).
Romans 11:33: “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” Notice two exclamations marks in this Scripture.
Can we give up asking the Why? And let’s be those who trust our God. Because He can be totally trusted! All things are under His control. Thee is nothing that is unnoticed by Him.
Love to you today from Nancy Campbell
