Asking the Wrong Question

If you are like me, you have asked the question, "Why?" many times in your life.

Whenever I want to understand anything in order to learn about it, I ask, "Why?" When I come to an understanding of whatever it may be, I can then relax and continue to learn, knowing there is a reason for whatever I am doing or going through.

But, when I come to those situations when there is no answer or no pat answer to my "Why" question, I become uneasy and insecure. Don't you? It is then that I remind myself that I can trust in Christ to hold the future and to reveal as much or as little as He wants to me about it.

Imagine what would happen if I had the answers to all the "Why" questions in my life? For example, would my life be better if I knew why my parents both died at an early age, or why many troubles and illnesses plagued and took the life of other precious family members and friends. If I knew the precise purpose behind allowing accidents, natural disasters, man's cruelty to fellowman, etc. then I would be responsible for such knowledge, and I would assume an unbearably heavy burden with such knowledge. One would have to be God to bear the answers to the "Whys" of life.

I want to suggest that the real question is, "Where am I going from here?"I can decide how I will accept what happens and deal with it with the LORD's help. You see, this is a question for which we can come up with an answer, one day at a time, with His help. Doma