Why in the world does God take you through such hard times? Why does He allow so many confusing, strange and difficult things into your life? I mean, God can do anything, right? And if He loves us so much, what’s with all the pain and difficulty? Huh? If He can spare us from a lot of our pain, why doesn’t He? Well, I may as well go ahead and tell you that I simply don’t know the answer to any of these questions. As a good friend of mine says, “I never get invited to those meetings.” In fact, if anyone ever says that they have the explanation for why God does things the way He does them, that person is about to stick their foot squarely into their mouth. No one knows why God does what He does in the way He does it. One time, some people begged Jesus to heal a man who was deaf and blind. Jesus took the man away from the crowd, stuck His fingers in the guy’s ears, spit on the dude’s tongue, then looked up to heaven and said, “Open up!” with a deep sigh. I mean, dang. That’s just weird, right? Who touches a person inside their ears and spits on their tongue? And Jesus didn’t have to heal him that way! He could have spoken a word or just snapped His fingers or just thought the healing and it would have happened. Why make it so personal? Why make it so invasive? Why make it so strange and dramatic and difficult? Well, I don’t know. All we really know is, in the end, the healing worked. Jesus does what He wants His way, and in the end, it works.
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