How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David? Psalm 89:46, 49
There have been plenty of times that I've asked God why in my life, usually in the most painful, crucial circumstances.Unbelievably, some people believe that to question God is the ultimate form of disobedience and weak faith. I couldn't disagree more.
The Bible is full of people who cried out to God, David being foremost. He cried out to God because he knew that He had been faithful in the past, and that he needed Him to be faithful again in the present. “God, where are you? I thought you were a loving God. Where’s this loving God that I thought you were?”
It's pretty clear that when we ask hard questions of God, we are standing in the stream of this ancient tradition, one that is captured time and again in the Bible.
Rather than being disobedient or faithless, it's in asking honest, gut-wrenching questions, the ones filled with anger and frustration, that we express a deep sense of faith in God. We cry out in frustration and in anger because we know that He is the only one who can do something about it.
In places in your life where you are struggling and hurt, you can come to God honestly with your questions, doubts, and frustrations. It's one of most faith-filled thing you can do.
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