Me:  Howdy Prodigal and Happy.

Prodigal:  I have been trying to talk with Happy but he has been ignoring me.

Me:  Well Happy is deaf and can’t hear you.

Prodigal:  Why is Happy deaf?

Me:  He was born that way.

Prodigal:  Why did God make him deaf?

Me:  Well that is a why question to God.  Phillip Yancey is one who can give the best answer I believe.

 

Perhaps God keeps us ignorant because we are incapable of comprehending the answer.  Maybe God’s majestic non-answer to Job was no ploy, no other way or dodging questions; maybe it was God’s recognition of a plain fact.  A tiny creature on a tiny planet in a remote galaxy simply could not fathom the grand design of the universe.  You might as well try to describe colors to a person born blind, or a Mozart symphony to a person born deaf, or expound the theory of relativity to a person who doesn’t even know about atoms.

 

We always want to know “why” don’t we.  We always want to know where this is leading don’t we.  We always want the whole picture in front of us so that we can determine if this a good plan or a bad plan.  God doesn’t work that way so sometimes our “whys” are not answered.

See at some point in our Christian walk we have to be ok with the no answer to the “whys”.  We have to say God knows and he loves me and I am going to submit.  We don’t get answers we want.  Our lives 5 year plan is not given to us.  We still move forward though.  See because when we are following God.  It is not just about us.  We are making an impact on so many others who are watching.  We don’t usually know who we are making an impact on, but we truly are.  That is why my decisions must be made on God leading me and not on what I see with my eyes at the moment.  Or what my plan looks like.  See God is working all around us, he just doesn’t show us how he is working around us until after we have submitted to the following.  Don’t focus on the “whys” of today.  Focus on God right now and trust in his leading!

 

God will instruct me and teach me in the way I should go.  He will guide me with His eye Psalm 32.8

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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