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God, Why Me?

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“What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?” – Job 10:3

I have a confession. I haven’t asked God, this question once since Azaiah died.  I have asked, “why not me?” I mean really. What’s so special about me that I should be spared the momentary affliction of this life?

Is it because try to be a moral person? Or because I am charitable or kind? Or maybe because I have devoted my life to being a partner in ministry to a godly man?

If anyone deserved to be spared, it certainly was not me.

It was however, Jesus. By our temporal reasoning,  if anyone should have been spared it was him. He wronged no one. He loved beyond racial and social lines. He fed the hungry and cured the sick. He made the outcasts a home. He forgave the most weary sinner. He promised life not death. If anyone should have been spared it was him.

Did you know he even asked to be spared?

“Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” Luke 22:42

But the thing is, Jesus, in his perfection, submitted his will and his humanity to a greater good than his own suffering.  He submitted his will for me. He submitted his will for you because God required it. God required  that the payment of  my sin be the  holy blood of the divine. The price to buy you back from hell was the blood of deity.

As he walked into the garden to pray, he dreamed of you. When he surrendered to the authorities he envisioned me. When he endured the injustice of  mortals trying the immortal, when he allowed the finite to beat and bleed the infinite, when he relinquished his authority to be hung on a cross, he did it with my son’s name seared on his heart.

We are the greater good that Jesus suffered for. You are. I am.

So what’s his suffering have to do with me? Pretty much everything.

For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead! Phil 3:9-11

I may never understand the depth of the love that would surrender so much. But I guess what I’m left with is a better question than “Why me?” But it is “Why you, Jesus?” WHY YOU?

Mar 11, 2013Serena
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  1. Leander
    8 years ago

    Thanks for sharing your writeup.

    In connection to your article you will be happy to know what Matthew 7:9 – 11 has to say in this regard (Please refer to your copy of the Bible for all the quoted scriptures here for maximum benefit). This scripture shows God’s love and care for his people. In addition, 1 John 4:8 teaches us that “God is love”. So would a God of love like to see his people in pain and misery? Ofcourse not! Our loving God would not take away the life of his own creation, who is loves so very much. In fact, he gave the life of his only begotten son to redeem mankind from sin and death.

    So then who is responsible for the immense loss of life, sufferings and pain?

    People usually tend to blame God for the loss they face in life because they think that it is Gods who rules this present worldly system, making Him responsible for it. However, 1 John 5:19 tells us that “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one”. No wonder we all are inflicted by many pains and suffering. The Bible tells us that it is Satan who is ruling this present system of things and thus he is responsible for all badness happening all around us. For further reference about Satan being the god of this system of things refer to 1 Corinthians 4:4. It is important to note that Satan has control over the present system of things, right from its governments, was clear when he offered Jesus “all the kingdoms of the world” in exchange for “an act of worship.”—Mt 4:8, 9.

    The good news is that the rule of Satan will not go on forever, he knows he has a short period of time as mentioned in Revelation 12:12. Revelations 20:1 – 3 says that he will be hurled into an abyss which will be shut and sealed during Jesus’ reign.

    God is not pleased with our pain and suffering. He feels our pain. Zechariah 2:8 says “for he that is touching you is touching my eyeball”. That’s why he has offered us the provision of the resurrection through Jesus Christ’s ransom sacrifice.

    All faithful ones have a good period of time to look forward to in the future. God has promised us in Revelations 21: 4 that all pain, mourning, tears and suffering will be no more. The old system of things under Satans rule will be no more.

    So why Jesus? Why was the only begotten son of God chosen to suffer and die for us?

    It was only Jesus who was eligible to perform the ransom sacrifice as he was perfect. A perfect life had to be given to compensate for the loss of perfect human life by Adam. that is why the Bible refers to Jesus as the “second Adam” in 1 Corinthians 15: 45. It was Jesus who succeeded where Adam had failed. God, through his undeserved kindness, chose Jesus to redeem mankind. God had full confidence in his only begotten son to accomplish his will and restore mankind’s hope. In doing so, he provided the means for all faithful humans to receive forgiveness for their sins and attain the kind of life that Adam and Eve enjoyed in Eden before they had sinned.

    You may also ask, Why is Satan ruling God’s world now?

    To answer this question we have to go back to the challenge Satan put out to God way back in Adams time. However, I am going to leave you with this to ponder over. We can continue this discussion at another time.

    It was nice sharing God’s word with you. I appreciate your zeal in his word.

    (Note: please read all the scriptures quoted here from your copy of the Bible)

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    May God bless you and your family.

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    • Serena
      8 years ago

      Thank you for sharing with me. Truly God aches with us in our pain. He knows this world is broken and he waiting for the moment to reclaim us and make all things new. And I can’t wait.

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