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While in Bible study last night God ministered to me very intensely. God knew what my heart needed to hear that would give me the strength and the energy to deal with my active challenges and the new ones that just arrived at my door without invitation.
What is the constant question that comes to our mind when something happens that we cannot control? WHY? The whys jump so quickly to our mind that they don’t give us the opportunity to even give them a proper welcome. Why God? Why me? Why is there sickness and disease? Why are people dying unjustly? Why is there so much hate? The sad thing is realizing that this is one of the questions in our language that gets more erroneous answers, or it’s a question that cannot be answered. As in my case, I have so many whys running in my mind right now and I have come to the conclusion that none of my whys have human answers. The answer is only in the mind of God.
But then… what do I do?
In the Bible study the teacher inspired us to learn to change our whys to NOW WHAT? What should I do with this situation? What attitude must I take? What changes must I do? What decisions should I make? What new habits must I develop? WOW! What a challenge!
While thinking about this I remembered a woman in the Bible that has been an inspiration to my life in the past two months. Her name was Abigail, 1 Samuel 25:2 - 42. This woman did exactly what I heard in class. She made a radical change in the way she faced a problem that had all the hallmarks of ending in total disaster for her and her family. She did not attempt to ask God the whys of the situation, but quickly changed her “why” to “what now” and began to look for solutions and opportunities in her crisis, achieving a victory that was unexpected even to her.
Perhaps, I may never get the answers to my whys. Perhaps, I may never have the power to control why things have happened in my life in the past, present, and will happen in the future. But one thing I know for sure… I can, I can, and I can, stand before my challenges and my crisis and ask God… NOW WHAT?
“I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am”
Philippians 4:13 (The Message) |
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