Okay, I have a question...

cndlou · Postby **cndlou** » April 7th, 2008, 11:40 am

Is it wrong to ask God why????

Postby **Pastor Gary** » April 7th, 2008, 11:45 am

Boy, I hope not. If so, I am in big trouble.

As much as I try to see God's providence and sovereignty in every situation, I find myself often asking "Why??"

MrDanger · Postby **MrDanger** » April 7th, 2008, 11:48 am

When I read the Psalms, the majority of it sounds to me like a David asking "Why?" a lot.

cndlou · Postby **cndlou** » April 7th, 2008, 1:42 pm

Thanks! I have been questioning several things in my life lately. I just don't understand and find myself wondering WHY!!!! Even after questioning why.... I still don't understand.....

I am trying to be patience and wait on God but................................

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » April 7th, 2008, 2:40 pm

cndlou wrote:Thanks! I have been questioning several things in my life lately. I just don't understand and find myself wondering WHY!!!! Even after questioning why.... I still don't understand..... I am trying to be patience and wait on God but................................

ditto. and a big mee2.

rjc · Postby **rjc** » April 7th, 2008, 3:25 pm

I don't think it is wrong and many times I have asked why. I try to remember that God doesn't have to tell us why certain things happen or why He is not answering our requests. I think we just need to accept that He has a plan and that we might never know or understand why or what this plan is. I also think that sometimes He does tell us why but we don't recognize His explanation or answers because they are not what we want.

soulsearcher · Postby **soulsearcher** » April 8th, 2008, 2:36 am

rjc wrote:I don't think it is wrong and many times I have asked why. I try to remember that God doesn't have to tell us why certain things happen or why He is not answering our requests. I think we just need to accept that He has a plan and that we might never know or understand why or what this plan is. I also think that sometimes He does tell us why but we don't recognize His explanation or answers because they are not what we want.

And for many things, as the old song says...

Trials hard on every hand, and we cannot understand
All the ways that God will lead us to that blessed promised land;
But He'll guide us with His eye, and we'll follow till we die,
We will understand it better by and by.

Then, there is line from another song that says, "I don't need to understand; I just need to hold His hand."

Pastor Bill · Postby **Pastor Bill** » April 8th, 2008, 4:40 am

He's a big boy, he can take the questions, we have to learn to trust despite the questions, not in the absence of them.

Question away, just know that some of the answers may not come quickly.

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » April 8th, 2008, 5:40 am

Just look at it this way. We are God's children and he is our father....right. Have you ever known a child that didn't ask why?

cndlou · Postby **cndlou** » April 8th, 2008, 5:44 am

Pastor's... I like your answers...

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » April 8th, 2008, 10:47 am

I've quit asking that question, honestly. Had this conversation with my wife last week. I've arrived at the point where why God does/doesn't do anything makes zero sense to me. Really, it doesn't. And, I scour my mind and try to find where God answers that "why" question anywhere, and I can't find it. A local church had a billboard up for a series called "Why". I laughed and told my wife, "That'll either be the shortest or longest sermon series on record, and either way nobody will know why."

The way I see it, God gives life to us quite undemocratically, without much explanation and without deference to our need to know why. Maybe that need is part of the fall of Adam, I dunno.

But, I got tired of not getting any answers that I could discern, so I quit asking. So far, I can't see any harm in letting all that just rest in His hands.

Pastor Bill · Postby **Pastor Bill** » April 8th, 2008, 10:54 am

I often have later seen why in my life, the answers do come from time to time, but yes we need to leave it in His hands and trust.

pastorables · Postby **pastorables** » April 8th, 2008, 5:10 pm

cndlou wrote:Is it wrong to ask God why????

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » April 8th, 2008, 6:53 pm

pastorables wrote:
cndlou wrote:Is it wrong to ask God why????

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And there's no explicit answer. Or, it was an agonized rhetorical question, perhaps. For me, my questions are what? and how?, and often when? I really don't care so much about why anymore. That's me: I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with asking God why. But, I found it the most empty question I could ask Him.

Mike Vande · Postby **Mike Vande** » April 8th, 2008, 6:58 pm

cndlou wrote:Is it wrong to ask God why????

Nope, ask away. Don't expect an immediate answer. You might get one, just don't expect one.

Jude 2