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January 10, 2005
Why?
by Diane Brown
Missionary to the Philippines
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? (Psalm 43:5).
ÓWhy do cats like to be patted?Ó ÒWhy do crickets chirp?Ó Starting at about age three we begin asking questions about our world and the ÒwhyÓ questions continue throughout the rest of our lives with deeper questions: ÒWhy did the accident happen leaving children without parents?Ó ÒWhy did such a sweet believer get cancer?Ó
The Psalmists asked God many ÒwhyÓ questions concerning their situations in life: ÒWhy standest thou afar off, O Lord?Ó (Ps.10:1) ÒWhy hast thou forgotten me?Ó (Ps. 42:9), ÒWhy hidest thou thy face from me?Ó (88:14). Yet the Psalmists often knew where to fly to find the answers.
God had a clear reason for His actions toward the situations the Psalmists faced as He does us today. An estimated sixty-two times in the book of Ezekiel, God clearly answers the question ÒwhyÓ for the situation in which GodÕs people found themselves: So that ÒÉthey shall know that I am the Lord.Ó
Clearly, God uses the situations in our life so that we may know Him better, our fellowship be sweeter, and our knowledgeable relationship deeper. We better understand ÒwhyÓ when we look to the Guide of our life pathways through reading His Word to gain wisdom and coming into His sanctuary through prayer. In Ezekiel, God wanted not only His people but also the nations living around Israel to know Him. Likewise, when we know God better, those around us can know Him through us. So next time we ask Òwhy,Ó the answer is at our fingertips: by using them to open the pages of His Word and by folding them in prayer. For now we must trust His Word for the answers we seek, and someday in glory all will become perfectly clear.
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust. Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee (Psalm 143:8).
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