Questioning God (AGW)
QUESTIONING GOD
There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is a challenge of unbelief and rebellion. The psalmist often questioned God and so did Job. God did not answer the questions, but He answered the man—with the mystery of Himself.
He has not left us entirely in the dark. We know a great deal more about His purposes than poor old Job did, yet Job trusted Him. He is not only the Almighty—Job’s favorite name for Him. He is also our Father, and what a father does is not by any means always understood by the child. If the father loves the child, however, the child trusts him. It is the child’s ultimate good that the father has in mind. Terribly elementary. Yet I have to be reminded of this when, for example, my friend suffers, when a book I think I can’t possibly do without is lost, when a manuscript is worthless.
In all three I am reminded that God is my Father still, that He does have a purpose for me, and that nothing is useless in the fulfillment of that purpose—if I’ll trust Him for it and submit to the lessons.