I've been leading our teenagers through a series on allowing God to increase and the importance of us decreasing. We have to come to a point in our lives where we admit we are only who and what God made us to be. We have nothing to boast of because all things come from God, our lives are given to us by God. Our abilities our gifts, our hope and joy are all gifts from God. Not one of us at any point did anything in our lives to overcome what God has given us. Sure, we work hard at what we enjoy or what we do for a living, but we are only manifesting the abilities and the drive that God has given us.
We also have no right to ask why. We are not created to understand all the things of God, only to trust in Him and cultivate a relationship with Him. There are a lot of reasons we have no right to ask Him why. My number one reason would have to be that we don't ever get what we deserve as Christians. We are born into a world full of temptation and sin. We sin regularly, and those of us who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior admit we are sinners and ask God's forgiveness. None of us admit our sins and never do it again now do we. I would hate for God to answer my whys sometimes.
Psalm 130:3 "If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand"
Think about those words, let them soak in. I would absolutely hate to ask God why some little bad thing happened in my life and then have Him say hold on a minute let me pull up your report. Let's start with that day when you were 8 and work from there, is that okay or should I go further? Let's talk about the things you have done in your life that are far from what I desire for you. Now get comfortable, Jeff, this will take quite a while.
I don't think any of us wants that scenario, so next time something happens to you. Don't ask why, thank God that you aren't getting what you truly deserve. We deserve death, but instead we receive life in His Son who died on a cross for our sins.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!
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