When I mentioned to a friend about Jake going on his mission for 2 years and told him I won't be able to see him or talk on the phone with him for those 2 years. I was ask why would a young man be crazy enough to leave his family for 2 years to go and teach about a religion and why would his family let him go? This question made me think. I had so many answers to his question that I couldn't think of where to start.
Well here's 5 reasons why...
1. Heavenly Father (who loves him more than his own parents) let him go to earth to live for a lifetime with his family. All He asks is to borrow him back for 2 years of that lifetime, in order to be an instrument in His work and serve Him. They would be selfish not to let him go.
2. He is blessed with the knowledge of the truth. Why would he keep that to himself?
3. If the message he has wasn't true, then why would he go and sacrifice so much for something that was made up; It is worth it.
4. The blessings that him and his family will receive for his 2 year sacrifice, will be enumerable.
5. Because he was called of God to do so.
At times when we are given a calling, or a trial or a warning by God, we ask WHY? Why me? Why now? Why this? Why that?....We must remember that we are never given a trial we cant handle, a calling we can't fulfill, or a warning we won't later need. There is a purpose for all that we are given, all that we do, and all that is taken from us. We are strategically placed in our lives and in our situations for a reason. We may not ever know the answers to our questions: Why we had to suffer? Why they had to die? Why I have to go? or Why this happened to me? in this life, but we will one day know....WHY?
