In Job, chapter ten, verse two, in none of the prayers of this servant did he pray for healing of his body. Job’s concern was the “why” of his suffering and God’s apparent abandonment of His servant: to know this was more important to Job than his actual adversity. Being accepted by God as one of His own, even in adversity, was the most critical thing in his life.
Job did not understand this experience he was having. For what ends and reasons, and for what sins? The servant of God was unaware of any peculiar sins by which he deserved to be the most miserable of all men. Job is weary of his life and resolves to complain, but he will not charge God for unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might receive deliverance from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he will contend with us. When he confronts us, there is always a reason. However, it is desirable to know we may repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us. But when, like Job, we speak in the bitterness of our souls, we increase guilt and vexation. Let us harbor no thoughts of God; we shall hereafter see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things or judge as men do; therefore, he thinks it strange that God continues him under affliction as if he must inquire into his sin.
The “why” seems the most significant among people in society involving a situation. Jesus, in Matthew twenty-seven, verse forty-six, asks God the question. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? The example here indicates how such an experience that no one has encountered, like the Son of God, to know the answer to the question He gives to His Father. Therefore, Job and other believers will have that question within their hearts and minds. However, we need to be mindful of who we are addressing because He is the God who made the universe and who made us. So, be careful how we approach our Maker.