I Don’t Understand

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Feb 4, 2021 · 3m

“Lord, why? Through sobs, I’ve asked this question many times. I asked it while looking at a baby in her casket. I asked it when a vibrant seventeen-year-old girl from our church died the night after she and my sister graduated from high school. I asked it when an always-healthy childhood friend died of skin cancer at age thirty-three. Again and again, I asked it after my father, a minister, died when I was sixteen and my sister was eleven. Although I’ve nearly drowned in grief, God has never answered my question of Why? I grieve without that answer. Strangely, because I’m a minister’s…