One of my favorite verses and expressions is found in Genesis 25, in the passage recounting the birth of Isaac’s and Rebekah’s twins, Esau and Jacob. Rebekah had been barren. Then Isaac prayed and God answered his prayer. Now Rebekah was dealing with the answer to prayer.
“And the children struggled together within her; and she said, ‘If it be so, why am I thus?’” Genesis 25:22 KJV]
I know various translations make that sound more modern (“Why is this happening to me?”), but I love reading it in the King James. How often I have quoted it back to God. “If everything is good, why am I thus?”
There are times in life that contain difficult circumstance – even though our relationship with our Father God is solid and secure. Being a child of God does not make us immune to the “why am I thus” happenings in life.
And while God told Rebekah why she was “thus,” (“The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals.”), He doesn’t always tell us why we are “thus.”
We often need to handle those kinds of questions with faith and the knowledge that God loves us and we can trust Him even when we don’t have all the answers. Amen & Amen
