Friday, August
28, 2017
O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to tell
of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. When I look at the night sky and see the work
of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals
that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than
God and crowned them with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under
their authority—the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in
the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name
fills the earth! Psalm 8:1-9(NLT)
When you’re
really little the big questions
always begin with “why”. Children want
to know why they can’t have that whole gallon of chocolate chip ice cream. They want to know why they have to go to bed
now. They want answers!
The
questions usually expand with age and curiosity. If the curiosity continues to grow, and never finds its home in
faith, the questions tend to lead down the path to cynicism and despair…and more
wrong answers.
But if
faith in the Creator leads anywhere at all, it always comes back to this basic
question of WHY; why…me? Why
am I alive, and what purpose does this life serve?
The cynics
who have come up empty and devoid of faith will say there is no purpose; we are
meaningless blobs of protoplasm that have managed to evolve and pollute the
earth to the point where it will eventually fold us back into a tangled mess
with all the other useless, meaningless beings of all time. One day this planet will explode or implode; just
choose your poison! Those who choose to
believe this kind of nonsense will also find a way to make a complex answer to
every other simple question like: two
plus two equals seventy-one, unless its Tuesday, in which case I want the
answer to be different…I’ll let you know what that answer is if you will just
be quiet about God.
But those
who have taken the leap of faith will eventually arrive at a more meaningful
discovery to the question of “why” – because…God!
Going back
to the beginning of human existence we find the answer to life’s most basic
question:
So God
created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them….Then
the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will
make a helper who is just right for him.”
Genesis 1:27, 2:18(NLT)
We are
created in God’s image, with a hunger for relationship (not good to be alone). And since that is so, it is also true of the One
in Whose image we are created. This is
the portal of understanding for every other question that begins with Why…?
It takes
faith (and a little common sense) to begin with the answer (God), and work back
to where your questions live…but that’s the substance of things not seen, the
evidence of things hoped for[2]…that’s
the magnificent path of discovery you’ll find when you ask God “why” like a
Psalmist!
For You Today
If you’ve
ever felt uncomfortable with not having the answers, try resting in the purpose
for which God created you in the first place…relationship with Him!
You chew on
that as you hit the Rocky Road…have a blessed day!
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