WHY?

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

I stepped outside into the bright sunshine to begin my run and I happened to look up at the azure blue sky and immediately I noticed something I had never seen before! For the most part, the sky was blue and nearly cloudless except right in the middle was a huge “Y” written across the sky. And immediately my heavenly Father whispered to my heart. “Yes, that is precisely the question that everyone has planted deep within their hearts… “Why???”

And I knew He was right! How many times do we ask that very question out loud or just rehearse it over and over from the secret confines of our hearts? “Why haven’t I been healed, delivered, released, promoted?”  Feel free to add any word here because the list goes on and on. For every painful circumstance, for every difficult situation, the question of “Why?” is either lurking in the background or is right in your face, seemingly inescapable. And as I continued through my neighborhood I mulled over my own personal whys and I wondered what we are to do with those nagging questions that we grapple with on a daily basis?

Well after my run, I had some errands to finish and as I drove along the curved and country road, I was still pondering this question of why and what we were supposed to do with it and to my complete astonishment there written across the sky was my answer! I still saw the deep blue expanse, but the “Y” had now been replaced by three perfectly formed arrows pointing upward!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes; Papa had been “doodling” in the sky to get my attention :  )  I put the window down to get a better look and as I sat in my car, the tears began to flow at the overwhelming goodness of my Father!

What do we do with the why’s of this life??? We look up and we offer them to the only One who sees our entire life journey! He alone knows the beginning from the end and everything in between! He only, holds the answers to every single doubt that is churning around in our questioning hearts. But will we trust Him enough to turn our focus from the questions to the ultimate Answer?

Just like the blue sky that had a single cloud in it, sometimes we tend to skip over all the “blue sky things” that we can be, (should be) so very thankful for and we hone in on that one single “Y”. But we need to remember that whatever we choose to focus on becomes dominant in our eyes. Let’s say that you held a sheet of black paper in your hand. Which is bigger the sheet of paper or the sun? No brainer, right? We know it’s the sun. HOWEVER, if we hold the paper in front of our face, the small paper blocks out the massive sun…because it’s all about focus! Whatever we choose to focus on will become paramount in our eyes and it will have the tendency to overshadow every part of our life’s journey. And when that happens, then what should be peripheral instead becomes principal!  We can focus on the questions or on the One who is the final answer for every question that is lingering in our hearts …but as always; the choice is ours.

So how about you dear one? Is the blue of your sky sprinkled with a few why’s of your own? Your heavenly Father discerns each and every question that your heart is carrying! Yes, He sees  the ones you bear from deep wounds inflicted, He’s fully aware of those that persist from bitter disappointments, He perceives the confusion that is overwhelming you that springs from the seemingly endless season of waiting for a long held dream to be realized and He understands the weight borne from the difficult circumstances that seem to have taken hold of your life. Nothing escapes the gaze of His all-seeing eye!

And because this life can be brimming with questions that we have no answers for, I believe He is asking us to gather up the uncertainties and bring them to His outstretched and waiting arms! As the Eternal, all knowing God, He can be trusted with the probing questions of our lives and as our Papa, He loves us with an everlasting love; so He can be relied upon to bring us clear resolution when the time has fully come!

And finally, we can be confident that every single query that overshadows our life will be completely answered by our adoring Father, when the time has been fulfilled.  So if not before, then on that very last day, when we stand before Him, we will know of a surety the whys of this life’s journey and we will gladly cry; “You are right my Father, You have done all things well!” But until that day, let us choose to look up with trusting and faithful hearts, knowing that all the questions of this life find their ultimate answer in Him and that He is unreservedly trustworthy to carry our whys, so that we may live our lives in shadow of His great love, trusting that His plan for us is good, that untold treasures lie ahead and that we are safe as we abide under the shelter of His massive wings!

Looking up,Sandy