Why we don't know why?

“WHY” is a question I hear from many people when discussing God.  They want to know why God behaves as He does.  A person that could answer that question would be wise and have God’s favor.  Why does God even need to put up with us; He has everything and has created everything?  Until our spirit leaves our body we will not have an answer to this question.  Here is a prayer and a few scriptures that might help.    

Prayer

Lord our God, you are the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, and you know all.  We seek wisdom from you to better our lives and be good examples so others will seek your will.  Forgive us when we fall short and fail in your eyes as we so often do.  Living your will is not comfortable or easy; grant us courage to go forward and live in a Christian way.   In your name we pray, Amen.

  

Ecclesiastes 8:16-17

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man's labor on earth—his eyes not seeing sleep day or night. 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.

1 Corinthians 2: 6-16

4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”10but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 16"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Matthew 7:13-14

13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.