An answer to the question why - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

All things work together for good to those who love God.
Romans 8: 28.

An answer to the question why
During my entire childhood I wept for my mother who died very young. Not that I lacked affection, but because, for a child, the separation from the one who bore her is like a real mutilation.

Every stage of my life brought back her image. If it was a happy stage, I regretted being unable to share it with my mother. If it was troublesome, I wept for not being able to tell her. How many times have I cried to God amid my tears, "Why did you take her from me?"

However, little by little, her absence and the suffering it caused forced me to seek a personal relationship with the God, to whom I used to speak without truly knowing Him. It made me seek in Him something other than an automatic machine to which I simply had to give a code word (religious rites or good works) to get what I wanted. It led me to put all my confidence in Him and make the hope for eternity that He promises each one my own. Then one day I was able to say, amid my tears, "Thank you Lord, for taking my mother, for now I know you." The waves of the stormy sea had cast me on to the God of love.

These lines certainly do not claim to answer the anguishing question, "Why the suffering?" May they be, however, a testimony to the fact that, in the difficult circumstances that God permits, He wants to hold out His hand to man to establish a true relationship with Himself.

Today‘s reading: 2 Kings 21: 1 - 18 · 3 John 9 - 15