So, when I opened my Bible App on my phone one morning a few months back when I was really wrestling with the “why”, I randomly went to one of the Rick Warren devotionals. It was titled “God, Why is this Happening to Me”.  Hmmm.. I was just asking that exact question when I awoke just a few minutes prior.  (It’s so great that God always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it!)  As I read, it answered my question.  God may not speak to us in verbal tones (as he did to Moses {Acts 7:31-34}), but He speaks to us through His Word, through tugs of our heart and through our desires to be more like Him.  As I was reading the devotional, one of the paragraphs by Mr. Rick Warren read like this:  “Friends, I’ve been studying the “why” question for 37 years, and I’m going to give you my educated answer: I don’t know.  And I’m never going to know, because I’m not God.  And neither are you!  Some things we’re just never going to understand until we get to the other side of death.  Then it’s all going to become very, very clear.  Only God knows.  And if you don’t get His answer right off the bat, you might as well stop asking “Why?” because you’re simply prolonging the pain” (©2014 by Rick Warren).

Around this same time when I was asking God “Why” and trying to “figure out” my situation,  I was listening to a FB live by a Christian woman that I follow tell us to “wrestle with God”.  Just go ahead and ask Him why!  Get raw and real with Him.  I thought, “Can I really do that?  SHOULD I really do that?  Wrestle with GOD!?!?” Well, this was a time in my life when I actually needed to do that – so I did.  God can take it.  He lived on this earth just as we do, and He saw the hurt and the pain that we go through.  So, I got on my knees and just had a wrestling match with God over the situation I was in.  And you know what?  God was ok with that.  He loved the fact that I was reaching out to Him, He provided me with peace, and He’s going to bless me for trusting in His answers.  1 Peter 5:7 NLT says “Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you”, and Psalms 55:22 NLT says “Give your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you.  He will not permit the Godly to slip and fall.” So we just need to continue to keep our eyes on Jesus and keep living our lives so we become more like Him – we need to act more like He would act.  Judges 7:17 NLT says “Then He said to them, “Keep your eyes on Me.  When I come to the edge of the camp, do just as I do.”

Psalms 37:7a NLT – “Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act.”

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