Article February 1, 1982 Issue

Why me, Lord?

DIXIELEE ALBERS WOLFF

All over the world people are asking themselves this question. They are wondering: "What did I do that this sickness or this problem should come to me? I've been a good person. Why should this separation come to me? Why this business loss? Why did I lose this job or that employee? Why did my spouse have to die? Why this, Lord?"

From a matter-based outlook the query is understandable. But it shows a lack of comprehension of God. It stems from old orthodoxy, which teaches that God sends evil and good to His people.

Christian Science points out that the Bible teaches us of a good God, who is "of purer eyes than to behold evil,"^{Hab. 1:13.} a God who is Love.^{See I John 4:8 .} We learn that Deity has nothing to do with evil of any sort and that for us to believe so is a gross misunderstanding of God's nature. The query shows doubt of our perfection as His image and likeness, an obscured view of our relationship to Him as His child.