Bible Reading: Jeremiah 5:19
It’s okay to question God. It’s okay to ask God why He allowed something to happen. That’s what happened in Jeremiah 5:19 which says, “And when the people ask,
‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’”
It’s also okay for God to choose not to answer. After all, God is God. God doesn’t have to answer to us. He isn’t accountable to us.
It’s up to us to trust God to direct the events of this world – and our lives – in the way He knows to be best.
When we continue to push God for the answers to our “Why…?” questions, we are saying that we don’t trust God, that we don’t really believes that He knows best, that, in fact we think we know better than He does. Pushing God for answers that He is not obligated to give shows our arrogance.
The Apostle Peter gives us the remedy for arrogance in 1 Peter 5:6a:
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand...”
To do that, we should go ahead and ask God our questions, then continue to trust and obey Him whether He chooses to answer them or not.
“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.” Isaiah 26:3 & 4
Prayer: Heavenly Father, it’s so hard for me to understand how You make bad things work together for good, but I trust You. In Jesus’ name. Amen.