Here is an interesting thought:

We are called to live by faith and not by sight.

What does that mean?

Perhaps it means that we are to live life without having all the answers.

How many times do we ask God why?

Why now?

Why this way?

Why him/her?

How many times do we ask how long Lord?

How long until I get what I am asking for?

How long before this is over and life can return to “normal”?

How long must I/they suffer?

It is not wrong or unusual to want to have all the answers….

In fact, knowing the answers helps us to feel secure, safe, certain, confident.

Sometimes, we may think, that knowing the whole story could give us better understanding or closure.

Knowing all the answers also puts us back in the driver’s seat…

back in control…

back at the helm of our life.

Right where we think we want to be.

And yet….do we really have all that control over things when we think we know all we need to know?

Are we really in charge of all the variables that come our way?

Does knowing all the details change anything that has happened?

Does having all the information bring you comfort when nothing has changed?

The perspective we see is from our own limited viewpoint…our own experiences…our own opinions.

We are unable to see all the details that are occuring all around us and, therefore, we actually have zero control after all.

Why is that?

Why does God allow us to sit and wonder?

Why does our Savior not answer our demands to know?

Why does our Lord seem to “withhold” information from us?

It is because HE is God and I am not.

Think about it this way…if I know all that I want to know – all that I demand to know –

where does faith step in?

Where is my dependency on God?

Where is my need for God suddenly?

In this world, people do not want to need for anything.

People do not want to need others.

People do not want a supposed “weakness” that tells the world “I need help”.

However, we are created to live symbiotically with God, with creation, and with each other.

God desires us to have a relationship with Him in that we have the freedom to lean on Him, talk to Him, listen to Him, to seek His will for our lives, to worship Him.

He showed us how badly He desires that relationship with us through the willing sacrifice of His Son.

He desires us to have faith in Him, to trust Him, to follow Him, to praise Him even when we do not know or understand what is happening, why it is happening, when it will happen, or how long it will go on.

After all,

WE ARE TO WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT.

(2 Corinthians 5:7)