741) The most frequent thing we say when something bad happens is, “Why?” That one-word question really should be two words; what we are often asking is, “Why, God?” I think we ask this because there is a need within to understand why the bad in the world happens and if there is a God, why He allows it. We also have a brain that wants to make sense of the things that take place.

The problem with this scrutiny is that there are some things that, in this world, will never make sense. When a child is murdered. When a marriage that you worked hard to save fails. When your best friend won’t speak to you anymore. This is where faith needs to take over. Faith says, “I don’t know why these things happened. I cannot make sense of them butI know God is good.” It’s standing, by faith, on the fact that I may never understand something in this life but God can take bad and make it good. God is good. 2 Chronicles 7:3