Why?

Excerpt From: Mark T. Goodman. The Ordinary Way: A Unique Way to Live. Apple Books.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 15:7 (NIV)

Time out! Here the stretching of my faith occurs. Parted seas, virgin birth—no problem. “Ask whatever you wish, and it will be done”—Do you feel the stretching? I do. The Bible does not lie; Jesus tells the truth. Yet, when I read verse seven, I cry out echoing the words of the boy’s father to Jesus, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” While this book is about God, not about me, I confess my stretching to you, trusting that you relate.

Without doubt I know the word “why” begins a large, if not the largest, number of heaven-directed questions. “Why God?” “Why God, did you…?” “Why God, did you not…?” With joy I declare that the God we worship fears not and angers not at questions of why. The Creator who formed you, giving you a mind and emotions, welcomes you to use them.

And so, today, we engage our stretched minds and emotions seeking to understand how verse seven proves true in a world so full of...

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