WHY GOD WHY?

QUESTIONING GOD

Someone has said, “It is alright to ask God a question, but wrong to question Him.”

Jesus falls under the heading of the former, when on the cross He asks God, “God, Why hast thou forsaken me?”

Israel in the wilderness fits into the category of latter, when they questioned God by saying, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?”

When we question Gods WAYS we are well within reason. When we question Gods CHARACTER (as Job found out) we are on shaky ground at best.

The world is full of wrong, and we aren’t wrong when we wonder why.

We go wrong when we try to blame God for it. The Bible is very clear that He is not the author of sin, and that the effects of sin aren’t his fault but ours and the devils.

As God’s “earthen vessels,” it is never acceptable to question Him as to why He made us the way we are. Or, as Paul so vividly illustrates this very thing in Romans, “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” The comparison he makes is between a jug and a vase.

Magazines, MTV and a multitude of other media create a mold that many, especially young ladies, think they are supposed to fit into. In reality, even those represented don’t fit into such a mold with makeup , costume, cosmetic surgery and sometimes even computer generated help!

Young men think they are supposed to act like thugs who disrespect women and flaunt immorality and drug abuse in order to “fit in”. That’s not God’ fault. Man's mistakes are made when he disagrees with God’s design and starts making his or her own patterns. The finished product is a failure when it is man made.

One of the secrets of being comfortable in your own skin is in realizing that God made your skin and put you in it!
We are not all the same, but we all had the same Maker. Though we are all from the same clay, a jug is not a vase. When you come right down to it, it really doesn’t make that much difference. All of us, (Christians) have the same treasure within.

Whether it is a crock-pot, or fine china, it is, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”