Your Daily Devotional for August 4, 2006

 

August 4, 2006

 

God, Why Me?

by Dr. Paul Chappell

 

 

“For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.”

 

Lamentations 3:31-33

  

Have you ever been in such deep sorrow that you cried out to God, “God, why me?” Sometimes we have a hard time dealing with troubles that come into our life. Because we can’t see the immediate benefits from these situations, we tend to question God.

 

As the hot tears of grief run down your face and your emotions overwhelm you, you can still have confidence that God is in control. He has a sovereign plan, and He is in charge. God has an eternal purpose for your troubles, and He wants to reveal them to you in His time.

 

Romans 8:28-29 says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” God wants you to realize that He brings trials into your life for a purpose. Many people see the trial but not the purpose behind it.

 

I know the trials that come into our lives are not always pleasant times for us. God understands this and makes provisions for our grieving. Ecclesiastes 7:3 says, “Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.”

 

The timing of a trial may be a mystery to us, but there is no coincidence with God. We must allow this time of grieving to happen; we need to allow grief to run its course. This time of grieving will not be easy, but we need to create a dependence upon God through it.

 

Friend, do not think that your trial will last forever. God does not give us more than we can handle. His plan is not primarily to make us comfortable but to make us conformable. He wants to use the trial and time of grieving to draw us closer to Him. When we realize that no one else around us can understand what we are dealing with, we will find that God is waiting to show us what He can do through the trial.

 

Someone once said, “Sorrow is the soil in which the flower of faith grows.” As we go through sorrow and grief, there is no one who understands our situation better than Christ. Not only did He go through tremendous grief when He came to earth, but He also put that trial in your life! This isn’t cause to get mad at God, but cause to depend even more upon Him. He knows the outcome of your situation, so why wouldn’t you want to trust Him?

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