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"I CRIED unto the LORD with my
voice;
with my voice unto the LORD
did I make my supplication.
I poured out my complaint before
him;
I showed before him my trouble."
Psalm 142:1,2
"Why Me, Lord?"
Many people are confronted with
difficulties
or crisis's in life.
Some of them are apt to say,
"Why me, Lord?
I go to church every Sunday, I tithe my
ten percent. I've been as good as most
people. Why are you allowing this to
happen to me?"
When we find ourselves starting to
think
like this, it sometimes helps for us to
ask
the same questions about other aspects
of
our life.
"Lord, what have I done that's so grand
that You should have blessed me
with a home to live in, a car to drive,
a television to watch, a meal on my
table
three times a day?
Why have You given me all these things?
Why me, Lord?"
"Lord, why did You permit me to be born
in America with all its plenty?
I could have been born in Pakistan or
some
other far off poverty-stricken country.
Why me, Lord?"
"Lord, why did You give me the
opportunity
to have a job when so many,
who are as deserving as I, are without
work?
Why me, Lord?"
"Lord, why have you given me good
health?
Others have died at my age of
heart attacks or are crippled with
arthritis.
Why should I escape ill health
when other Christians do not?
Why me, Lord?"
"Lord, why have You spared me from
the sorrows that strike so many
families?
So many lose loved ones,
yet I haven't.
Why me, Lord?"
When we think of all the ways the Lord
has blessed us, though we don't deserve
it,
how can we possibly complain
about the relatively insignificant
things
like a broken down car, a tv on the
blitz,
the dryer not working,
and all the other things that go wrong
from time to time in our lives?
If we could only learn to count our
blessings,
instead of questioning God,
we would be thanking Him instead!
"Lord Dictated
Them"
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