Why me?
If there is any question that is harder to answer on this earth, I have yet to hear it. Because there is no answer for it.
Yes, we will go through trials on this earth. But who can answer the 'Why Me?' question to a girl in Cambodia who has just been "sold" by her parents so they can have money for food? Or the young mother in Haiti crying as she holds yet another dying child in her arms. And the parents in America, whose child has been diagnosed with cancer, hearing those words from the innocent eyes of their precious 7 year old.
Why me?
(I almost can't continue here. My heart breaks thinking about it.)
I write this post because it's something I've struggled with. I've heard this question many times before and I don't know how to answer it. It is easy to come up with a "spiritual" answer. God is with us through it all. God will take what Satan meant for evil and turn it around for His good. He does not allow us to go through anything more than we can bear. But, do those really answer the question?
Yes and no.
Yes in that those are in fact based on scripture. Truth should bring comfort right?
But no, because it doesn't change the circumstances. Trials, storms, struggles, challenges, whatever you call them, are not easy. Even with God, we are all human, with human thoughts and emotions. As such, we can often grow weary in having to go through the same hard times day after day after day. We may get a temporary respite in looking or thinking of someone worse off than us. But, the reality is, that doesn't change our circumstance.
What is the answer then?
There is no answer.
Life challenges happen. For whatever reason, there are things that happen just because it's life. They don't have to be that way but we live in a fallen and broken world. We live in a world where people put themselves first before God. And if a people put themselves before God, what kind of world should we expect to live in?
Truth be told, I am as guilty as anyone else. I have put my own wants, needs and desires before God. All Christians are guilty of this. We're sinners.
Does that mean we are at fault when bad things happen in this world or to us? I'm not so dumb as to presume and say as such. Does it contribute? Perhaps. But to say the answer to the "Why Me?" question is our own fault would be absurd.
I honestly don't know how to answer that question. I just don't.
I will say this though. I'd rather go through life asking the 'Why Me?' question WITH God than without Him.
((NOTE: I typed my thoughts exactly as I was thinking them. Please forgive me if any of this feels random. I do not want to edit when I post. That way you know exactly what I'm thinking....more genuine that way.))
Until next time,
RSPSSunny
If there is any question that is harder to answer on this earth, I have yet to hear it. Because there is no answer for it.
Yes, we will go through trials on this earth. But who can answer the 'Why Me?' question to a girl in Cambodia who has just been "sold" by her parents so they can have money for food? Or the young mother in Haiti crying as she holds yet another dying child in her arms. And the parents in America, whose child has been diagnosed with cancer, hearing those words from the innocent eyes of their precious 7 year old.
Why me?
(I almost can't continue here. My heart breaks thinking about it.)
I write this post because it's something I've struggled with. I've heard this question many times before and I don't know how to answer it. It is easy to come up with a "spiritual" answer. God is with us through it all. God will take what Satan meant for evil and turn it around for His good. He does not allow us to go through anything more than we can bear. But, do those really answer the question?
Yes and no.
Yes in that those are in fact based on scripture. Truth should bring comfort right?
But no, because it doesn't change the circumstances. Trials, storms, struggles, challenges, whatever you call them, are not easy. Even with God, we are all human, with human thoughts and emotions. As such, we can often grow weary in having to go through the same hard times day after day after day. We may get a temporary respite in looking or thinking of someone worse off than us. But, the reality is, that doesn't change our circumstance.
What is the answer then?
There is no answer.
Life challenges happen. For whatever reason, there are things that happen just because it's life. They don't have to be that way but we live in a fallen and broken world. We live in a world where people put themselves first before God. And if a people put themselves before God, what kind of world should we expect to live in?
Truth be told, I am as guilty as anyone else. I have put my own wants, needs and desires before God. All Christians are guilty of this. We're sinners.
Does that mean we are at fault when bad things happen in this world or to us? I'm not so dumb as to presume and say as such. Does it contribute? Perhaps. But to say the answer to the "Why Me?" question is our own fault would be absurd.
I honestly don't know how to answer that question. I just don't.
I will say this though. I'd rather go through life asking the 'Why Me?' question WITH God than without Him.
((NOTE: I typed my thoughts exactly as I was thinking them. Please forgive me if any of this feels random. I do not want to edit when I post. That way you know exactly what I'm thinking....more genuine that way.))
Until next time,
RSPSSunny
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