Why?

Job 42:5-6 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. (6) Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

So many times I stop and ask, "Lord, why ...". It has been a steady theme (though at times it has decreased and others increased it has always been there). Recently I was talking to a friend and thinking, why do I ask "why?"

It seems a little simple, and it reveres the juvenile game of asking, "Why?" and being told, "Because", "Because, Why?" back and forth. I decided this was a problem for me and it needed a little more research, so I did a little investigating, below is what I found.

I am not alone, there are about 50 verses of people asking, "Why, Lord?" and 40 asking, "Why God?" In the midst of all these there are 2 passages that really stand out and have a crazy outcome.
John 9:1-7 is a good example (included at the end) The man was not blind due to sin, but rather the reason he was "suffering" from blindness was so God could show the world Christ had the power to heal. He was used to show the world Christ power, so it is sometimes in my life.
The other really awesome passage is in Job. Job is overtaken by a lot of trash even though the Bible declares he was righteous and after his 3 "friends" keep trying to tell him he is guilty, he starts to wonder and ask God, Elihu responds to him he is innocent, but thats not enough God say He will answer all of Job's questions if Job can answer one of God's. God takes 4 chapters to ask Job a list of questions, to which Job responds, oops. And realizes "Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Shall I give what I cannot keep, to obtain that which I can never loose? Will I lean on my own understanding, or will I acknowledge Him in ALL my ways? The question, "Why?" may present itself, but my response will be "Because God."

-Here's to accountability!-



John 9:1-7
(1) And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
(2) And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
(3) Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
(4) I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
(5) As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
(6) When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
(7) And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.