Insisting on knowing “why” this or that happened can be a frustrating and peace-destroying cycle. It is okay to ask the question and it is also okay not to get an answer. The question of “why” is often asked of God. Yet, there are other people’s choices that play hugely into the things that happen in our lives. Sometimes we may even want to go back a generation or two to ask one long dead, “Why did you do that? Do you even know what you set in motion?” We can live our lives in the confidence that God loves us and cares about what happens to us and will bring good out of bad without ever getting an answer to the why. Trust Him.
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings.” (1 Peter 4:12-13a KJV).
