08/08/2026
Asking the “why?” question to God may be a cry for Him to intervene.
O God, why? Three simple words, but they summarize volumes of tears, screams, moans, protests, and tortured confusion of the children of God who sit suffering among the ashes.
One of the psalms we prayed today in Bible in One Year begins that way: "O God, why do you cast us off forever?" (74:1).
Why did you let my home be destroyed in a hurricane?
Why did you let my little girl die of cancer?
Why did you let my enemies undermine everything I had worked for?
Why do you seem to care so little?
On the cross, Jesus himself, one man speaking for all humanity, lamented, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46; Ps. 22:1).
Here is a prayer that refuses to be silent in the face of suffering. O God, why? Such prayers are not seeking information but intervention. Do something, God!
And that is just what our Father wants us to ask. To see darkness staring us in the face and to lift our eyes to cry to the Light.
When we sit among the ashes, whatever the loss, whatever the pain, of one fact we can be certain: nothing can un-resurrect our Lord.
He lives. And because he lives, we can not only face tomorrow but all our tomorrows, for we know that God is on our side. In his own time and in his own way, he will intervene, because he will not close his heart to the cries of his children.