January 27th, 2021
Killing Me Softly Devotional Series – Week 3 – Blaming – Wednesday - Lori Ennis
Why Not Me?
Exodus 34:6 (KJV)
“The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.”
My first son died in 2009. It was a rare and tragic fluke, and it hit us and everyone we knew like a ton of bricks.
Shortly after, the horrible earthquake in Haiti occurred. Night after night, I would watch the news and see the devastation continue to unfold.
One particularly gripping story was of a man whose entire family was buried beneath the rubble. Each night, the news reporter would follow him as he went to the building and tried to talk to his family. They could not be rescued, and eventually, after about two weeks, there was no more talking. The man’s family was all dead.
People constantly showered us with comfort in the days after our son’s passing, and particularly with the question, “Why you? You are so good with kids, and you both love the Lord, and you would make great parents. Why did this happen to you?”
And it would be easy for me to ask the same question. “Why MY son, God? Why US? Why did I have to bury my baby, but another gets to have a miracle?”
You would not blame me, would you?
The thing is, watching that man lose his family, slowly and painfully over that two weeks taught me to ask a different question. Instead of asking, “Why me?” I asked, “Why NOT me?”
Does God love me more than He does that man? His family? No. Of course not.
So, what would make ME so special to be immune to tragedy while he was not?
Nothing but the world’s lies trying to tell me God could not be good if that happened to ME.
Friends do not believe the lies. God is good all the time. He is. Even when the circumstances are NOT, He IS. When it is easy to find yourself asking, “WHY ME?” try instead asking “Why Not Me?” and know His love for you is not about the circumstance, but who He is.
Why Not Me?
Exodus 34:6 (KJV)
“The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.”
My first son died in 2009. It was a rare and tragic fluke, and it hit us and everyone we knew like a ton of bricks.
Shortly after, the horrible earthquake in Haiti occurred. Night after night, I would watch the news and see the devastation continue to unfold.
One particularly gripping story was of a man whose entire family was buried beneath the rubble. Each night, the news reporter would follow him as he went to the building and tried to talk to his family. They could not be rescued, and eventually, after about two weeks, there was no more talking. The man’s family was all dead.
People constantly showered us with comfort in the days after our son’s passing, and particularly with the question, “Why you? You are so good with kids, and you both love the Lord, and you would make great parents. Why did this happen to you?”
And it would be easy for me to ask the same question. “Why MY son, God? Why US? Why did I have to bury my baby, but another gets to have a miracle?”
You would not blame me, would you?
The thing is, watching that man lose his family, slowly and painfully over that two weeks taught me to ask a different question. Instead of asking, “Why me?” I asked, “Why NOT me?”
Does God love me more than He does that man? His family? No. Of course not.
So, what would make ME so special to be immune to tragedy while he was not?
Nothing but the world’s lies trying to tell me God could not be good if that happened to ME.
Friends do not believe the lies. God is good all the time. He is. Even when the circumstances are NOT, He IS. When it is easy to find yourself asking, “WHY ME?” try instead asking “Why Not Me?” and know His love for you is not about the circumstance, but who He is.
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