As I relaxed in the spa last evening with my daughter and her friend, I listened to my daughter play out a conversation that her animal friends were having that she was playing with. The mother animal said “time for bed” and the child animal said “why do we have to go to bed?” The mother animal says a simple “Because I said so”. I cracked a smile at that and than began to think of how God tells us the same thing. We want to have the control over our lives but the reality is that we need God. He made us that way so that we would search, find and hopefully choose him. Without God we are children trying to do things our way and we know what happens when kids get to do whatever they want. Mess after mess, disaster and chaos. The sooner we realize we need to depend on God the better off we will be. The answer to all those why questions to God is a simple “Because I said so.” God is God. He knows best.
Isaiah 40:28-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
