You Must Never Ask Why Don’t Question God

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I’m not just saying that to self-promote. I’m saying it because they are filled with valuable Scriptures, Bible interpretations, verses, things like that, that you need to learn and understand and really take to heart.

Because it is only through internalizing the Word of God and then externalizing it through your actions that you will be able to be a good witness to others — a firm believer in Christ, because as James says, “Faith without action is dead.”

I want to inspire you to have both faith and action, and you get that through more knowledge, wisdom, and understanding of the Bible. And how do you get more knowledge, wisdom, and understanding of the Bible?

You read. You study. You meditate, and you learn from other people who have been gifted with the ability to present it to you, and I really hope that you see that. That is me.

I’m presenting it to you, and so take this fruit and consume it, and study it, and meditate on it, and then start to share it with others through your own labors. That will produce more good fruit.

As Paul says, “God wants you to be obedient to him.” We talked about that last week, you can check that out in a sermon up here in this card if you’re watching online. Also, you need to have that obedience, without questioning why.

“And so, what are you talking about here?” you might say. God wants you to be dedicated to Him. You need to be devoted to Him. We have a sermon series called “Fully Committed.” You can check out that playlist.

There are a bunch of sermons in there about being devoted and committed to God, and part of that is never asking why. Don’t question God.

You say, “Well, what are you talking about?” I mean like if He says, “Do something,” or like when you’re child — if you’re a parent you have children or if you’re a teacher, maybe you don’t have your own children but you are around children or pretty much anybody is around children enough to have had this happen in one instance.

When they say “Pick up your toys,” or whatever, “Go do this,” “Eat your vegetables,” — whatever — the case is, you ask them to do something and they say “Why?” And then you have to explain to them.

Now, sometimes this is good because you’re explaining to them the reason behind it, and you’re giving them more knowledge and more understanding.

“Well, you need to hold my hand when you cross the parking lot, because I’m taller than you, and I can see farther. So I see over these cars and I can tell if there’s a car coming that might hit you, where you are shorter, and so you can’t see. And so I’m holding your hand to protect you from what’s unknown to you, because I don’t want you to get hit by the car that you can’t see.”

And so you give them that knowledge and understanding, and then from then on, “Okay, hold my hand” because they trust you.

Or why do you eat your vegetables — you give them that explanation. Maybe they don’t like them still. Or maybe they say, “All right, I trust you. I’ll do it.” So God will provide you with that understanding, with that knowledge.

If you’re asking why with the right intentions to learn more, He’s going to give you that knowledge and understanding.

But if you’re just questioning Him, almost defiant, or you’re just asking, asking, “Why” to be difficult, or to be stubborn, or because you don’t want to do it, that’s what we’re talking about. You must never ask why. He wants you to have blind devotion. When God says, “Jump,” you need to be saying, “How high​?”

Let’s go to Romans 6, Verses 16-23. Romans 6:16-23: “Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, that you are slaves to the one whom you obey— whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed in the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves.

Just as you used to offer parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.”

Paul is saying in that big section of verses that you need to be a slave to righteousness, showing blind devotion and obedience. If you’re familiar at all with the history of slavery, or with how it worked, there was a master and a slave, and the master would tell the slave what to do, and the slave did it no matter what.

Didn’t matter because if they didn’t do it, there was just no question. There were consequences, punishments, cast out, whatever. The slave had devotion to the master.

Now, of course, if the master was good, the slave did it out of love. If the master was evil and wicked, the slave did it out of fear.

It is much better to be having the loving relationship than that of fear, and that’s how God is with you. God loves you, and so you need to love God back. And by doing so, when he says “jump,” you say, “how high?” Of course, you just do it. Blind devotion.

God is good and would never ask you to do something foolish or bad, or wrong. He loves you too much to play jokes on you that are harmful. Anyway, you need to understand that and follow him blindly because he has your best interests at heart.

How do we know this? Let’s go to Jeremiah 29:11. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares Yahweh. ‘Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

He wants to give you more. Hope and a future, plans to prosper you, not to harm you. So when He tells you to do something, be obedient because He has your best interest at heart. We know this, because guess what?

The Lord is your shepherd. Let’s go to Psalms 23:1. “The Lord Yahweh is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.” What does that mean?

It means that with Him as your Shepherd, you’ll want nothing because He’ll be giving you everything you need, and everything you have. Yes, if there’s stuff that you want, check your desires.

Maybe you’re wanting it because you’re being a slave to something else, like a slave to sin, a slave to impurity, to greed, to lust — something like that. Let’s go to Psalms 100, Verse 3. If He is your shepherd, then you are His sheep.

Psalms 100:3 “Know that Yahweh is God, it is he who made us and we are His. We are His people, the sheep of his pasture.”

We have a sermon on this called “People Are Sheep.” Check it out here in a card, “People Are Sheep.” Sheep do what? They follow their shepherd without question. They blindly follow.

You could put blindfolds on all the sheep, and they would know the voice of their shepherd. And they would know where to go and what to do, based on their shepherd. They trust the shepherd, and God is our good shepherd. So we need to trust Him. He wants you to do the same.

So, for this reason, you must never ask God why. Don’t question Him. God knows why, and someday, He may reveal His reasoning to you. Let’s go to John. John 13, Verse 7. (John 13:7) “Jesus replied, ‘You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’”

So God has your best interest at heart, and you may not realize what He is doing or why He is asking you to do something, but later, you are going to understand why. Why are you going to understand? Because He will give you that understanding.

Whether it’s now, two years from now, or when you’re in Heaven, someday, you will understand. And you’ll look back and say, “Man, if only I understood then, how cool this is.” You’ll see His plan and you’ll look back, because He’ll reveal it to you.

Now, hopefully, you’ll be fortunate enough to have that understanding while you’re still alive and on Earth, but if not, trust that someday all will be made known to you. So if He doesn’t reveal it to you, that’s because you’re not ready. You might not be ready to know why He’s doing what He’s doing.

Let’s go to Ecclesiastes 1:18. It says, “For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.” So sometimes God may be having you do something, or He may cause something to happen in your life, and you don’t know why. But if you knew why, then you would have even more grief and even more trouble. You’re not ready to understand why He is doing something.

You’re not ready to know the reason for what God is doing, and that’s because you don’t realize it. He hasn’t bestowed upon you that knowledge because you can’t handle it.

How many times have you heard that saying, “You can’t handle the truth?” Well, a lot of people can’t. We’re not strong enough, as Paul says.

They’re still on milk, and I’m trying to give you solid food, and you guys aren’t even off milk yet, so I need to really dumb it down for you, and give you something you can understand. Someday, that should be your goal. You need to work up the understanding to get beyond soft food.

To get to the milk, the meat of everything from milk to meat, or inch deep thinking down to bedrock. That’s the goal. Deep and wide, you need more understanding, more knowledge, but right now, you may not be able to handle it.

So God’s not giving it to you, but you still can’t question why. You need to obey God. Let’s go to John 16:12. John 16:12 says, “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.”

God has a lot He wants to share with you. It’s sort of like you might want to share your entire life with someone you may be mentoring. A teenager, perhaps, or a young child, or even your child, but they’re not ready to have that knowledge.

Do you tell your children all about the gross evils in the world? About human slavery and trafficking, about all the serial killers and what they do to people? No, because they’re not ready to handle that knowledge.

They’ll be terrified and afraid, but as they get older, they learn more about what the world is really like, and then what happens? That childhood bliss and happiness starts dwindling away.

And as you get older and you realize how truly wicked and evil people are, with the more knowledge, the more grief you have. And as you become more and more close to God, then you truly have grief.

Let me tell you, each and every day. Man, it sometimes, it’s overwhelming, and I still want more. But every day I find myself saying, “God, I just can’t take it.” And so here I am, asking for more, but I’m also saying, “I can’t handle it.”

Why would God continue to give me more if I can’t handle it? Why can’t I handle it? Because it’s overwhelming. The evil I witness all the time in the TV shows, and how do I witness it because I know more. I have more knowledge and more understanding, and I have a deeper relationship with God.

And so every time I see these things, it’s grieving me. Well, I know it grieves God even more. It grieves Him, and so I’m grieved. The more knowledge, the more grief.

And right now, yes, maybe sometimes it is overwhelming, but guess what? I’m getting better and better and better. I’m learning more and more and more.

My heart is opening up, and as you continue on in your walk with God and you continue to know Him more, He’s giving you the ability to handle more and more and more. That’s the truly incredible part.

So you need to never ask why; you just need to obey God. I remember when I started Social Media Ministries, I knew it was going to take about $8,000 to get it going.

Everything we needed, and the initial part was like 5,000 bucks to just get the ball rolling. I didn’t have the money. So what did we do?

God says, “Do it anyway.” I’m like, “Well, how can I do this? Like, what do we need to do?” Well, guess what? Credit card, put it on there. Took me like a year to pay that off personally.

Social Media Ministries hasn’t paid it all off, but it doesn’t matter. God said, “Do it,” find a way, it’s done. I end up having to sell a car, too!

Don’t ask why, just do it. My wife and I have shared a car for 3 years now, and you know what? We’ve made it work, one vehicle. Because why? Because the other one got sold to do what God asked me to do. Now has it been hard?

Yes, no one said it was going to be easy, but guess what? You can do it, and you know what? Someday, when we’re ready, when we need one, we’re going to have another car, but we don’t need to know why or how long, or when.

We just have it on our board: “Hey, someday, God, we would really love a second car.” Because you know what? It would sure be nice, make things easier, but if we’re not ready for it right now, we don’t mind.

We have other things that are going. We’re doing more. We’re obeying what God says, we’re not asking, “Why don’t we have two cars now?” It’d sure be easy. It doesn’t matter.

Don’t ask why, just do what God wants you to do. Knowing the reasons sometimes could change your mentality.

Like if before, if God said, “Hey, you’re going to start Social Media Ministries and in doing so you’re going to go into big-time debt on your credit cards, you’re going to end up selling your car. You’re going to have one car. You guys are going to have to move to a different location.”

I’d be like, “Man, maybe I don’t want to do all that. That seems like turning my life upside down.” Knowing why could change the mentality. When instead, He keeps that from you and then slowly reveals it to you, and you’re along for the journey, and you’re like, “Okay, this is great.”

We’re making it happen because you’re not overwhelmed with the magnitude of what could happen if you obey, or when you do something.

If He says, “Hey, by obeying you’re going to be captured or you’re going to be kidnapped, or this will happen, or your plane’s going to crash or whatever.” Then you might not do it.

You might have a different mentality, and you wouldn’t learn what God wants you to learn. So trust Him, understand that there could be many reasons why God is telling you to do something. Don’t waste time trying to figure them out.

Instead, spend your time and your energy on obeying God and trying to understand what He wants to teach you from that situation. A big one is death. If any one of you have lost a child, you understand how hard that could be.

And you might wonder why God would do something like that. We have a sermon series on grief and death. You can check that out. If you’re going through that, that could very helpful. Be very beneficial to you.

Death is hard. It’s very hard, and a lot of times we don’t know why, but we need to understand that God knows what’s best, and He will use everything for the good of those who love Him.

So if you love God, trust that no matter what is happening, it is being done, and it is going to be used for your benefit. He will carefully guide you as long as you let Him and allow Him.

If you rebel, then that’s when things happen. That’s when bad things can even happen even more. That’s when life gets harder, but when you submit to God and trust Him, let Him carry your burdens.

Remember, He says, “My yoke is easy and my burdens are light.” Let God carry them for you. Understand that even though there could be many reasons, God knows those reasons and He knows why. So you don’t need to know why.

He loves you, and He’ll carefully guide you as long as you allow Him to do it. So allow Him to do that. God doesn’t have any malicious intent or ulterior motives, He’s not secretly scheming in the sidelines, hoping you’ll do this so that this will happen.

No, God is lovingly leading you everywhere you need to go, and if you choose to follow Him, even though it can be hard, on the straight and narrow. He will bless you. He has your best interest at heart. He has a plan, He has a purpose for your life.

You have a purpose. Follow God. We’ve got sermons on all this stuff. Trust Him and let that be a load off your shoulders. That God has everything under control. So guess what? All you need to do is trust God. You don’t need to worry about all this stuff.

Planning all this, yes, you have to have plans. You need to stay in the Word and know what God’s plans are for you, but you don’t need to concern yourself with all the reasons why, or all the possible outcomes that could happen, or everything that might go wrong or everything that could go wrong or everything that could go right, or what would happen if I do this.

Don’t count your eggs before they hatch. Your chickens before they hatch kind of a thing. Don’t start getting all excited about stuff that’s not even growing yet. Plant the seed and wait, and trust God. Allow Him to carry that burden. Let it be a load off your shoulders. Follow Him with all your heart.

Let’s go to Proverbs. Proverbs 3, Verses 5 and 6. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord. Trust in Yahweh with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.”

Trust in the Lord. Obey Him without question. Don’t ask why. Don’t question Him, but instead, obey God and follow Him with all your heart, exactly as sheep follow their shepherd.

Let’s pray.

Lord, thank you so much for this time together today. I ask that you would inspire each and every person out there to fully trust you. That they wouldn’t question why. That they would obey you to the end without question and that they would trust you fully.

That they would lean on you in all their ways, acknowledging you. That you would make their paths straight, carry their burdens for them, have their yokes be easy, and their burdens be light.

Give them much fruit from their labors. Let them see results and encourage them. Lord, continue to bestow upon them more knowledge and more understanding without the grief. Without the heartache.

Let them live a life filled and worthy of the calling that you have bestowed upon them in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Thank you so much for being with us today. I hope that you have a great week. God bless.