Why?

At Wednesday prayer service this week, I shared some thoughts from Mark 7:31-37. Those verses describe Jesus’ healing of a man who could neither hear nor speak. The description of how he did that is graphic, because he put his fingers in the man’s ears and, after spitting on his hand, touched the tongue of the man. This was the case even though he had only recently healed a little girl without touching her or even seeing her; he healed her from a distance. The question comes to mind: Why did Jesus use totally different methods in healing these two people? And that question engenders another, more far-reaching question: Why does God do what he does in the way that he does?
We always pray for sick people. Sometimes they get well, and sometimes they do not. Hence the question posed above: Why does God do what he does in the way that he does?
Before you read ahead looking for the answer, let me tell you I don’t have it. I simply cannot second-guess God and tell the world why he does not deal with all persons the same way. What, then, can I do? I can believe God. I can trust him. I can pray, but I’ve learned that “Thy will be done” must always be a part of my prayer. I may never know this side of Heaven why events transpire the way they do in this life, but I can keep on trusting God no matter what.
The old song has it right: “We will understand it better bye and bye.” As Mark 7:37 declares, ““He has done everything well” (NIV). I don’t need answers; I need faith.
The proof of God’s love for us all is in at the cross of Jesus Christ. There God demonstrated his love. For reasons of his own God “did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all” (Romans 8:32 NLB). “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NIV). There can be no greater love. The first thought I want to have when I face a crisis is, “God loves me.”
I may never understand the “Why;” I need only to understand the “How.” The “How” is in an old hymn: “Trusting Jesus, that is all.”