"...Out of Control"

"As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?" (Psalms 42:10) If you have ever found yourself asking the question, Why? and then wondering afterwords if that was a rhetorical question because you really don't want to know the answer, then you may need to try and get some of the world out of your system. Any time we suffering through something that takes people or things out of our lives, we need to be asking the Why question, and we need to be asking with purpose. Did you lose your house? Then maybe God needs you to focus more upon the house He has built for you. Did you lose you spouse? Then maybe God wants you to present yourself as His bride. Did you lose your child? Then maybe God is needing you to come to Him as a child? I am not saying that God causes any of those things to happen, because those things are caused by this world and it's fallen state; but God does allow certain things to happen in the life of His children, and then He uses those things to shape us into the image of His Son. So, what I am trying to say, is that we must not ever make our question rhetorical, because God is doing something; things don't just happen, although many people will try and tell you different. We cannot control what happens in this life, that is totally up to God; but we can control how we respond to what ever it is that this world throws at us, by asking that Why question, and then letting God work His perfect will into our lives..."For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected the same in hope; because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." (Romans 8:18-25)