Why?

Have you seen the commercial recently where the little boy is following a man around and asking him why about everything… and finally at the end of the commercial we discover that this boy is not the son of the man but asking him these questions because of the intelligence the man has because of the type of car he drives…

Why is something we all want to know.

Why do good people have to suffer?

Why is there pain in the world?

Why are my prayers not answered?

Why does God allow those things to happen?

Job is a wonderful story of a man who is a devoted follower of God and does not question what happens to him. Even when Satan comes in and gets God to allow him to do anything to Job except kill him, Job still follows God. Even when Job’s friends tell him that he must have done something and needs to curse God if he didn’t Job still follows God. Why?

Because Job knows that following God does not mean that everything will be good, that it is a walk in the park, that life is suddenly always sunshine and moon beams…

Job 37 tells us about the rumbling of the earth at the sound of God’s voice. About snow falling because God said so. How God does not contain the lightnings that come with the thundering of His voice, or He does not contain the stuff that comes with the falling of the snow. Animals must seek shelter, and the ground and all around will freeze. Things change because God commanded the snow to fall. And Why?

“Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.” (Job 37:13)

Why? Because God made it happen. It really does not matter why, for some reason God had to have it happen in just this way. Maybe for our correction, or so that the land could be nourished or returned to some state, or simply because He loves the person or thing that received a special gift… For some reason God had to have it happen, and that is why.

So trust. Trust that God is who we have been promised He is. And do not worry about why.