In my humanness I want to ask why, but I feel You telling me that my answer may not come in this earthly realm. I may not get an answer to my why until the answer to my question does not matter! My flesh wants to ask why and it wants a flesh pleasing answer, but Your Spirit gently tugs on mine and tells me...the answers to your questions will not matter once you are in heaven...where earthly (temporal) things just do not matter.
When I am struggling with or questioning why I have so much pain in my physical body or why I am still actively waiting to receive my healing, Your Word tells me, "Therefore (I) do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though (my) outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet (my) inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day." Sometimes the why is about, or the suffering is for, loved ones lost in sin or no longer in my life due to the ramifications of sin and the pain seems long going, never ending and I cannot bear it any longer. But Your Word tells me that, "For (my) light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for (me) an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!]. Since (I) consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting", 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (amp). WOW! What an answer to my question of why! So, as I ask why Your Word unfolds the truth and confirms what Your Spirit speaks to mine.
You are telling me...Ponder your questions carefully before you pose them, remember, I am weaving a resplendent and eternal tapestry of many colors and I want very much for you to be woven deeply into the most beautiful part of it! Trust Me, I have been weaving for eternities- I wove you in your mother's womb (Ps 139:15) so I know how to weave the torn and tattered rags of your past, pain, and yes, your questions of why into something astounding in your life!
HALLELUJAH!
You affirm for me that there are absolute and definite answers to my questions, but I will miss more important questions if I get stuck on just one and I am already lost in the questioning when they are not of eternal importance. My treasures, my heart and my why's must stay on spiritual and heavenly focus.
I can rest assured You are not choosing to ignore, avoid or just not answer my questions of why. But, maybe You have a question for me...Why My daughter are you asking why? "I know the plans I have for you...I want you to enjoy success. I do not plan to harm you. I will give you hope for the years to come", (Jer 29:11 NIRV).
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