People have
questions about God, and questions about what He does. Some of these questions
are hard questions. People ask things like, "Where are the answers when I
need answers but no answers can be found?" "Where are the answers
when I have cancer and I have to decide whether I want surgery or
chemotherapy?" "Where are the answers when I am elderly and I am
forced into leaving my home and I have to decide whether I will go to a retirement
home or move in with my children?" When we need answers, sometimes it
seems God is far away. The Psalmist talked about God when it seems God is far
away when the Psalmist wrote in Psalms 22:19 "But you, O Lord, be not far
off; O my strength, come quickly to help me." Where is the answer when you
have to decide whether to put your parent in a nursing home or try to take care
of him or her yourself? Where is the answer when you are a single parent and
you have to decide whether to put your child in a daycare center or whether to
hire a babysitter you barely know? Where is an answer from God and God's
guidance for decisions you have to make when all the choices are bad ones? Part
of the answer must rest in trust in the Lord and in trusting our ability to be
His humble and contrite child. Part of the answer is in our ability to be
willing to do only His will and not our own.
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