In truth, the people who I have admired the heroes of my life, the deeply spiritually committed

people to the Lord Jesus, are people who have wrestled with some of the toughest problems

that life could ever dish to them or to anyone. Furthermore, I want to do something else,

and that is, I want to relieve you from the

guilt that says that when you are going through the tough times, it is not spiritual to ask

why. The great heroes of the faith in the Word of God, all of them have asked at one point

why. In the book of Judges, Chapter 6, when the Midianian All of them have asked at one point, why?

In the book of Judges, chapter 6, when the Medianites came over upon the Israelites and devastated their camps and absolutely decimated whatever's left there,

Gideon looked up to heaven and he said, why did God allow this to happen? Where are the miracles that our forefathers

told us about? Job, the man who lost everything, and I mean everything, his children, his livestock,

his crops, he lost everything. Not only that, but he became ill with boils all over his skin sitting on a pile

of ashes. He asked, why wasn't I born dead? And when the Lord Jesus Christ himself hung on the

cross, and for the first time he was not talking about his physical pain, he was talking about his separation from the cross. And for the first time, he was not talking about his physical pain.

He was talking about his separation from the Father. It is the first time ever that he was

separated from the Father. Since before eternity, they have coexisted together. And this is a

moment when he carried your sins and my sins. And then he became separated from the Father.

He called out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why have you forsaken me?

And I want good news for you.

If the Son of God asked why, don't ever feel it is unspiritual to ask why.

There are times in our lives when the finest dreams are crushed, when hopes that seem to be so certain get dashed,

when the train of our lives all of a sudden becomes derailed through no fault of your own.

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