A QUESTION WITHOUT AN ANSWER

Life throws up many questions. Man by nature, being inquisitive, will try and find answers to every question. This is but normal and natural. However, there is one question, if not more, to which, there is no proper answer yet. The question in consideration is this – “Wonder why God gives us so much pain though he is a loving God??”

The above question keeps popping up, in different wordings, in different contexts. However, the basic framework of the question remains the same. “Why does a good, loving and sovereign God allow, pain and suffering in the world?” To be honest and realistic, this is a question, for which, there are no proper and satisfying answer, on this side of eternity.

However, we have to make do with what Job expressed, when he himself was subjected to intense pain and suffering. It gives us a good and deeper insight into life and the suffering…
– “20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.” 22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.” – Job 1:20-22
The above response of job is when he lost all this had in life, in one single day.

We then see, Job being attacked in his body. Seeing all that has befallen Job, his wife says…
– “9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” – Job 2:9

The response of Job, is what should be our response too, when hit with inexplicable issues in life, where there are more questions than any answers. Here is the response of Job…
– “10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” – Job 2:10
The underlying spiritual principle that Job had, and we should have too is found in Paul’s words to the young Church at Rome…
– “28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose…32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?…35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?…37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” – Romans 8:28,32,35,37

When we are hit with troubles and problems for which there are no answers, then, we need to be careful, about how we tread forward in such situations. It would be easy for one to go astray, especially when the problem is painful and personal. May the LORD help us to keep our sanity and our integrity, and walk as ever, faithfully and obediently on the path that the LORD is asking us to walk. Even so the LORD help us.