DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONAL: JUNE 8 HOW DARE YOU ASKING GOD “WHY?” (3) SCRIPTURE: PSA. 115: 3; Job 38: 2; 42: 7 – 8, 11

No human is accustoms to hardships. Every human being desires or looks forward to comfort, good life, freedom, pleasures, luxurious and gracious livings. The moment any human faces unending hardship, he or she inclines to asking the “why” question. The question seeks an answer from their gods or God the Almighty. As humans, asking God “why” questions as said earlier in this series of the devotional can only offend God. Hear the Bible in Psalms 115: 3: “But our God is in heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased.” *When the question is emotional and on helplessness as the result of what one is passing through, God will not punish. Prophet Jeremiah, while passing through unbearable pains said what we might call unpardonable statement. He said “Why is my pain perpetual? Are you a liar and unreliable?” (Jeremiah 15: 18).

Today’s devotional looks at the appropriate question for God when we are passing through unbearable situations. We are to ask God, ‘what’ instead of ‘why’ because the “why” question lacks humility and questions the authority of God’s plans for His children. Asking God “what” suggests humility, trusting Him and wanting to know His purposes for you. Therefore, we can ask questions such as “what do you want me to learn from this situation I am inside?”; “what good should come out of this my sickness?” Or “what actually will I learn from what I am passing through that will be beneficial to me and other persons?” In asking God “what” enables us make intentional decision to trust God because, the question makes God shows us the benefits which lie within the hardships. After all arguments between Job and friends, and their suppositions that God was behind Job’s problems, God came out to rebuke them. God referred to Job’s friends as people without knowledge. He asked: “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?” (Job 38: 2 KJV). God said our ways are not His ways and our thoughts are not His thoughts… (Isa. 55: 8).

There are more good plans from God when He allows us pass through unbearable times. God was preparing Job for the next level of leadership to gain more wisdom. But people around him saw it differently. God’s purpose was to make Job a high priest over his friends, but they thought God was punishing Job. God made Job’s friends to take seven bulls and seven rams each to Job for burnt offerings and for Job to pray for them for God’s forgiveness. This is a duty of a High Priest. God caused Job’s relations and friends to bring him gifts of money and gold earrings. This symbolises sign of a King over his people. In commenting on Rom. 11: 36, where the Bible says “For Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things…” one Alan Redpath said that, “Whatever comes into my life has first went through the throne of God and met His approval for my life.” This should be on the minds of all Christians. If we know that nothing comes to us without first being passed through the throne of God for His permission, we will be equipped with right questions to Him in the days of our afflictions. My beloved, your pains are for good in future. Your greater promotion is in your greatest hard times. Ask God to keep you till those raining days!

PRAYER:

BLESSED FATHER, grant me faith, hope, and strength to wait till my raining days against my present hardship come. May I not stop my higher positions from coming through at my trying periods in Jesus name.

POSITIVE DECLARATION:

I will surely wait till my change comes out my moment of trials. God is faithful!

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