Are you ever plagued with unanswered questions?

• What hair color do they put on the driver’s license of a bald guy?
• Does fuzzy logic tickle?
• If I’m unique, doesn’t that make me like everyone else?
• If a tin whistle is made from tin – what is a foghorn made out of?
• Do Lipton Tea Company employees get coffee breaks?
• Is there another word for synonym?
• Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all?
• Isn’t it scary that doctors call what they do “practice”?
• Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
• Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
• Would a wingless fly be called a ‘walk’?
• Is it possible to be totally partial?
• Shouldn’t the word abbreviation be shorter?
• If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?
• Do they use sterilized needles for lethal injections?
• Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

All kidding aside, there are tough questions in life that just can’t be answered this side of heaven. When I look beyond my own telescoped vision of my own life and see the great big world out there – I only have more questions. Questions I don’t have the answers to – like what about the people of Haiti who are suffering? Or children, women – around the world who are starving or being abused? With free will comes great responsibility – just ask Eve! (I think I’ll have my own questions for her when I get to heaven.) Okay, so I can’t say I wouldn’t have made a better choice. My own life proves that.

Recently I had a discussion with a friend about this very thing – how can a good God let bad things happen? Her response was that we often blame God for things He never caused, and fail to thank Him for all the good He brings into our lives. A little lopsided, isn’t it? The Bible says the rain falls on the just and the unjust (Mt 5:45). The Message puts it this way: “This is what God does. He gives his best-the sun to warm and the rain to nourish-to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty.”

God created the perfect world, gave man a choice to live in it or not, and when sin entered the idyllic garden God created – it messed everything up! And still, God chooses to give us good things. James tells us that ‘every good and perfect gift’ comes from God.

So my questions – and yours – may not be answered this side of eternity. But we can trust in a good and loving God who is there through every difficult challenge of our life – and brings good things from it. That’s just the kind of God He is!

All for Him,

Missy