Why, God, Why?

Have you ever prayed and the question was so big that you could only ask the question with “why”? Me, too. “Why, God?” seems to be a very popular question. Why this, that, and the other thing? As if we really wanted the answer. We have the questions. But “wanting an answer”, “really wanting an answer”, and “wanting the answer received” are different things.

We want the answer. That is why we asked the question. While asking the question and wanting the answer, we may not have thought it all the way through, because the answers were already given. We just did not like the answer we received, so we ignored it for a better answer that we did not get yet. So, “Why, God?”

Then, when we really want the answer – we nearly hunger for it we want it so badly, we ask “Why, God, why?” Then get quiet. All the while still asking on the inside: “Why, God, why?” Then in our specifics we receive an answer, and we momentarily satisfied. We are satisfied until the next time there is an event beyond our liking or beyond our control, and we ask afresh: “Why, God, why?”

Then, in all our asking we receive an answer and immediately say to ourselves – maybe to God, “That’s not it.” And God gives His best parent face to the young man or woman who retorts in disbelief. Yeah, sometimes it is “it”; just as God said.

“Why, God, why?” prayers usually are a sign of denial and disbelief. The very complex questions asked in three simple words also have complex and lengthy answers that are summarized in three simple words: “I love you.”

What?

Yep.

First, get past your religion or your irreligion and take things at face value according to the Bible. Number one: God is. Number two: God is who He says He is. Number three: God chose you.

That is in simplest terms what the Bible’s message was, has been, and remains today.

God loves you and chooses you.

Okay. Let us start here.

God – the I AM and All Powers in One – created the heavens and earth for you, for us. Genesis 1 and 2 shows God making it all, making a place He calls pleasurable, makes a garden in the middle of that, then places Man in the middle of that, and says “Take care of this. You are my child.”

Later, because of what Man did, God said this: In the beginning was the Word – my thoughts, emotions, desires, expressed, put into action (Greek word: logos). The Word was with God (the I AM, All Powers in One), and the Word was God. Yep, God put Himself into what He was doing. And then He did this, the Word became flesh (became Man) and lived among us. He was the light and the life to the world. His own right hand gave salvation. His name became “God saves”, because what Man did required saving from sure destruction coming.

There is no Valhalla in the after life. There is only Ragnarok outside of Christ. There is no Nirvana. There is only destruction. Think about no life because all that made you who you really are is taken away from you. All that remains is a husk that knew life once but no longer.

God came to this world to give life, and that more abundantly. In the book of John, chapter 10, verse 10: God points out that Jesus – whose name means “Salvation of God”, Yshua – came to give life. The word used there is the Greek word “zoe”. It means vitality or vital life. It is often used to mean just life or well being. But, think on this. God came to give you… us… His life, His vitality. And, that life more abundantly!

Why? Because, He loves us. Simply put.

Now, back to our original question: “Why, God, why?”

It is simple, really, but also extremely complex. The simple part is: it is our fault. The complex part is how 7 billion living people managed to get us to that question daily, and how not quite that many who lived before us helped significantly to get us there. Where? To “Why, God, why?”

If you look at the human condition long enough you will realize we are our own worst enemy. This simple fact has led too many people down a strange path of dominance or super dominance of others, because… well, they knew better how others should live their lives and forced the others to serve them in those capacities. They forgot or were never taught that we are family with a simple task: be fruitful, multiply, and fill all the earth. We have mostly missed that mark.

In His loving kindness, He has not let us continue in a world reshaped into a form fashioned by us. Instead, He showed us absolutely how little we can do, how hopeless our lives can be, and just how out of control of things we are, simply because we are no longer a part of Him or with Him. This life makes no sense a part from the God of the Bible. With Him it does.

With Him I can lay hands of the sick and infirm and they recover. With Him I can command blind eyes to see and deaf ears to hear. With Him I can lay hands on the lame and watch them walk away. With Him I can discover mysteries and hidden things that produce phenomenal wealth. With Him I can see to solve mind-twisting problems. With Him…

Well, that is the secret right there: with Him.

Why, God, why? Oh, because you love me enough to not let me suffer in this life without you so I can learn how to live with you and walk with you. Yeah, that makes sense.

But you just said, “what about…?” Yeah, that would be Man’s creation that caused that. God said we were to dominate this world. He did not say we could dominate this world without Him. He intended that we should dominate this world with Him.

So, that is why “Why, God, why?” is answered with “I love you.” He did not need you. He wanted you. And, He wanted to share all of this with you… us. With one caveat.

Man chose to separate Man from God. In the same way, Man must chose to join Himself to God. And, there is only one way to do that. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as the son of God, as the penalty price paid at the cross and the grave, then walk with Him as if you were never separate from Him.

Simple. Right?

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Just ask: God, I take Jesus as my price paid to come to you and to begin my walk with you. Let me walk with You as my God, as my Father, and let me live my life with You, sir. So be it. Amen.

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That is all that is required. Now, go and do…

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Get into a Bible believing church, study the Bible for yourself, and tell somebody that you walk with the God of the Bible now because of what Jesus did for you at the cross. Have fun!!!