8/6/2019 MMW Why Why Why

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Why Why Why ...WHY

This is the lament of all of us at some time. Life is rarely fair and we often feel letdown or just out of synch with where we feel we should be.

Unfortunately the doings of the day have wiped what I thought that I had this morningwhen I got up. It isnt that the thoughts have become redundant; theyre not, but justthat I have lost the flow. It is my fault for not making more copious notes. It is myfault for letting myself get distracted. That is the why of my question for today.

This morning I was thinking about how the enemy can easily frustrate our peace bythe simple device of a question. As you may recall from Genesis 3 the first time thatmankind met him the question Satan asked was. Did God say? then he went on tosuggest that God was keeping the goodies for Himself.

Not much has changed over the ages. He still accuses Father of doing unspeakablethings to mankind, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is just an example of naturalevents that Satan would like to drop on Fathers toes . But more to the point his mostcommon question is why.

It is much easier to try to get us to question our own motivation or make us feel thatwe have been put upon by others or, even more significant ignored by God. There isan element in the human psyche which responds to the name I and this makes iteasy to make us feel put out.

Of course there is an answer to this trick of the devil. One supp lied by FatherHimself, it is found in many parts of His word the Bible.

In the Psalms David the king spends a lot of time agonizing about the injustice of hisplight but he also spends a lot more in praise of God who redeems him. In one ofthe Psalms but by the Sons of Korah we find the words.

He says, Be still, and know that I am God

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth.

These words occur after the previous 9 verses in which war and desolation are thenormal but God is in control He is their fortress and their comfort.

This is the truth that the question why seeks to undermine. We are meant to be inrelationship with Father and rely upon His loving mercies. He is our vindication notwhat we try to use as a justification for what we are doing.

Father desires to be exalted in the earth. This is what we have as a calling, each ofus are here to live with and for Father so that through our lives He will be glorified tothose around us. Father has a purpose for each of us in the season of His choosing.This is for a temporary time for many of us but for some it is for a lifetime

All of us have a call to mission but that call is wrapped up in our unique relationshipwith Father when the enemies of God try to get us to ask why we need to look to Himwho vindicates, say we trust Him, and then ask ourselves the question becausesometimes Father does ask us to make changes in our life.