Instead of Asking, "Why?"

Can I say, "Your will be done, LORD." 
Instead of asking, "Why?"

I was challenged with this thought from the pastor at a local church yesterday. It's so easy to say, "Why me?" or "Why did you put THIS into my life, God?" or "Why do I have to face another big thing?" Why? Why? Why? But is that how God wants me to respond? Does He want me to take every little and big struggle and trial in life and say, "Why, why, why?" Or is He calling me instead to say, "God, YOU'RE in control. YOU can see the big picture. I cannot. YOUR will be done."

The speaker asked the question, "Can you trust God with the ABNORMAL trials in life?" Can I? Isn't that scary sometimes? Isn't it easier for me to take it into my own hands, to try to find the answers to the "why's" without God? Because if I have control of my world, than it's safe. Right? But, NO! That's exactly opposite of what God wants. He doesn't want me to have the answers, to make my little world feel safe, to take the abnormal trials and try to make them right on my own. He wants me to trust HIM! He wants me to humbly, yes, HUMBLY give it all to Him. Why is that, so often, SO hard?

Can I let El Shaddai--God Almighty--take care of the abnormal trials in life? Because to Him they are not abnormal, they are NORMAL! He can handle them.

The speaker spoke on Job. He had so many big and abnormal trials in life. His wife told him to "curse God and die." But did he? No. Instead, He humbly came before God . . . can I do as Job did?

I am encouraged by the verse in Isaiah 40:31:

But those who hope in the LORD shall renew their
strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they
will run and not grow weary, they will walk and
not be faint.

Can I hope in El Shaddai--God Almighty--and trust Him in the abnormal trials and situations in my life? For then He shall renew my strength. 

Instead of asking, "Why," can I instead say, "Your will be done."

[photo taken in August 2015 in Bemidji, MN].

~Clarissa