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"Why me, Lord?"
Lord, why me?
The bad back, bad knees, the cancer?
Lord, why me?
The sciatica, herniated disk, the agony?
Lord, why me?
Why did you bestow all this misery upon me?
And God softly answers,
Why NOT you?
Suffering is for all mankind to bear
And you, my daughter are no exception.
I give life's greatest battles
To my strongest, most brave of soldiers.
And you, most precious one,
Are one of my most fearless warriors.
So when YOU ask "Lord, why me?"
Remember well, these words
For they may well be,
Exactly what you need to have heard.
Don't ask "Lord, why me?"
Instead, loudly declare
"Lord, TRY me!"
Lord, why me?
The bad back, bad knees, the cancer?
Lord, why me?
The sciatica, herniated disk, the agony?
Lord, why me?
Why did you bestow all this misery upon me?
And God softly answers,
Why NOT you?
Suffering is for all mankind to bear
And you, my daughter are no exception.
I give life's greatest battles
To my strongest, most brave of soldiers.
And you, most precious one,
Are one of my most fearless warriors.
So when YOU ask "Lord, why me?"
Remember well, these words
For they may well be,
Exactly what you need to have heard.
Don't ask "Lord, why me?"
Instead, loudly declare
"Lord, TRY me!"
A few years ago I wrote something that addresses similar thoughts Perhaps it will have value to someone asking similar questions.
Christians and Disabilities
The paralytic who was lowered through the roof faced difficulties for the few years of his life, but for the last 2000 years he has been celebrating God’s mercy and glory, and will continue for eternity. He considers it worth it to have gone through what he did for the few short years he was on this earth. Ditto, the blind man in John 9. Do either of them now wish they had been born normal and healthy?
Do you suppose that they are still praising God for trusting them so much He gave them a more difficult life in which to bring greater glory to His Son for eternity?
So what if you, or someone you know, suffers a little while in this life? Compared to eternity, it will be worth it to them.
Which is more important in changing the world for God: arms and legs, or a godly attitude? Nick Vujicic is a man who was born without arms and legs but is changing the world through his attitude toward God and his love for others.
http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/
How many people with full use of their arms and legs can claim to have accomplished as much as he?
By way of illustration, let's imagine a certain atheist with a healthy body who condemns God for allowing disabilities. (By condemning God for allowing disabilities, isn't he acknowledging the existence of God?) He claims that God must not love people if He allows so many people to have disabilities. The atheist considers healthy limbs to be more important to God than the right attitude toward God’s Son, Messiah Jesus.
If there is a God, and if there is eternal life, isn't it reasonable to expect that the right attitude toward God in this life has more eternal value than whether or not one had certain fleshly protuberances, or eyesight, or clear hearing, or a fancy car or big house, etc.?
Is it possible that God has selected the disabled person to receive harder times on earth because they have greater character potential in eternity?
And isn't it reasonable that a few difficult years of this life will be far outweighed by the greater joy and happiness the person will enjoy for all eternity?
In eternity, will not that person worship God for blessing them with the disability which allowed them to grow so much closer to God than so many others, and to learn what is truly important to God?
It is not a pity that a child is born without arms and legs, such as Nick Vujicic. It is a pity that the healthy atheist with both arms and legs and a healthy mind is choosing to reject God for eternity.
For the atheist who dies an atheist, this life was the closest he will ever come to heaven. Why not let him have these few years with arms and legs? Since they have chosen to reject God's love through His Son, healthy arms and legs, and perhaps a comfortable life, may be all God can do for them.
Because they have chosen to turn away from Messiah Jesus in this life, in eternity, there is only one place where they can get as far from Him as possible. But even then they will have to face their hatred, pride, arrogance and foolishness because God will be there too. That is a far greater loss than not having use of ones arms or legs for a few years of this life.
In every area of life we see that the harder the challenge, the greater the reward. If there is any value to life at all, then that value can be increased or decreased by how we deal with the challenges we face.
Everyone faces difficult challenges; some more than others. We simply choose whether or not to honor Messiah Jesus in how we face them.
The entire point of life is whether or not we choose to honor Messiah Jesus in any given situation.
The greater the challenge, the greater the potential God sees in us, and the more we will worship Him for it in eternity.
The choice is always up to us each minute of our lives.