Elder Steven Bloyd opens the scriptures to consider a question we are all tempted to ask in response to the challenges of this life: why? Why do God’s children suffer? Why do God’s children fall away, leaving only cemeteries and empty buildings to remind us that a church once met in that place? Why do we sometimes feel far from the Lord, when the Lord has not moved?
The scriptures tell us in Isaiah that God’s thoughts and our thoughts, His ways and our ways, are as far removed as the heavens from the earth. Even when we do not understand our circumstances, we can trust Him.
In Matthew 27, Christ on the cross also asked why: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” That is one question we will never need ask. No matter how we feel, we have the promise that God will never leave us or forsake us, and that He will give us the strength and grace we need for our days.
Though He did not promise we would understand, He promised that He would go before us, and with us. Let us take comfort in that promise and place our trust in Him.
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