WELCOME to week 8 of my SUPER SELF CARE series! This week’s emphasis: Is God too busy to care? Find out how to becoming spiritually fit, beginning with one of the most common questions: “Why, God?”
NEXT WEDNESDAY: Book giveaway winner reveal AND a special announcement. Sign up for my blog posts so you don’t miss it.
“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with Him.” ~Jorgen Moltmann
“Why, God?” is the heart’s cry of untold numbers of Christian women.
Carol and her husband want a baby desperately, and they’re seeing a fertility specialist. With help from medication, she becomes pregnant then miscarries. Again.
A young couple receives the news that their little girl has a congenital disease: Cystic Fibrosis. Every day Bella has to take medication to help her digest her food properly. By age 8, her mom needs to pat her back every evening to loosen phlegm in her lungs. At age 10, she fights pneumonia regularly.
Amy loses her job. She has been unemployed for two years and moves back in with her parents. Christine finished her degree in elementary teaching with high hopes. With cuts in the state budget, she cannot find a teaching job and works at Target.
Vicki’s husband died a year ago. A fatal heart attack at age 54. She misses her best friend. She misses dreaming of going on trips with him and visiting their grandchildren. She misses holding his hand.
Pain Begets Suffering
When faced with suffering, some folks — even Christians — begin to doubt that God cares. The thinking goes like, “If God cares, He would not have let this happen.” They may become unwilling to believe that God, who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving, would sit back and do nothing while one of His children suffers. They may even question His existence.
Yet other Christians move toward God.
They let their “Why, God?” become a prayer — a heartbeat of yearning — to know God better.
The Point of Problems
The Bible says the God uses problems in at least three ways for your spiritual health.
1. God uses pain to direct you. “May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance” 2 Thessalonians 3:5.
2. God uses pain to correct you. “It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees” Psalms 119:71.
3. God uses pain to perfect you. “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything” James 1:2-4.
What About YOU?
Do you have an uneasy sense that God doesn’t or care or is too busy elsewhere? Know this, sweet sister in Christ: God loves you. You matter. He wants you to come to him and tell him your fears and disappointments. He wants to heal you spiritually. If you have questions about spiritual and emotional healing, please feel free to contact me at Lucy@LucyAnnMoll.com.
Book Giveaway — You Last Chance!
Next Wednesday, I’ll announce the winner of the five-book giveaway to one of the women who has commented on a post in this series.
You can enter the giveaway today by leaving a comment on this post and on any post in the SUPER SELF CARE series. You can read the other posts here. The more posts you leave a comment, the greater your chance of winning the giveaway of five books Christian women love to read. It’s not to late to enter! I’ll make my selection, using a random method, on Monday, August 6.
Please join me the conversation on my Facebook page too. You find a fun question to answer. Fast, easy. Be heard. Check out all the posts in this series HERE.
With Joy Overflowing!
