Monday, January 28, 2013
arrived
The Trip was very relaxing everything went fine reach in time every were . Torry sleep one & half hr on the floor in Mexico D F in airport covered with a blanket . We also had a good lunch there. Yesterday LMR came to our room visit us at least 1 hr. She will have a surgery in a few days. Now we almost ready to have our breakfast. We didn't see Henry Dueck' yet . This is what Dave emailed this morning. Tina RF
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Hi there, good to hear that you got to Tijuana safely. Hope everything goes well with treatments.
Loretta Bartsch Arborg MB
Thank-you for keeping us updated. Our prayers and thoughts are with you guys.
Praying that the treatments go well, easy, and that Tory heals faster then expected.
Leroy & Karen Loewen
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013
"Why, God?"
I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
—Psalm 42:9
I don't think it is ever a bad thing to ask God why. Some people will say that we should never question God. But I question God all the time. I don't mean that I doubt His existence. But I do say, "Lord, I don't understand why you have done (thus and so). . . . Why, Lord?"
As you read the psalms, you see that many times the psalmist cried out, in essence, "Why, God? Why have You allowed this in my life?"
And Jesus Himself asked, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:45–47).
So don't think it is wrong to ask, "Why, God?" It isn't wrong. But let me add this: don't expect an answer, necessarily. You can ask all you want. And maybe the Lord will give you an answer. But in most cases, He won't. Quite frankly, I think that if He did, we wouldn't understand it anyway.
So here is what we need to say: "Well, Lord, I don't understand, but I trust you."
Even Jesus struggled with God's will. In the Garden of Gethsemane, under intense pressure, "His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground" (Luke 22:44). Jesus literally was perspiring sweat and blood, and He said, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done" (verse 42).
There has to come a point when we say, "All right, Lord. I will do it. I don't feel like doing it. I don't want to do it. I don't even think it is a good idea to do it. But I am going to do it, because You told me to."
That is what Jesus did. And that is what we need to do as well.
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