I heard about a university philosophy professor who was mean as the dickens. Practically every person who took his class got poor grades. Rumor had it that only one person ever made an A in his class. The student that received the A would have been voted most likely not to succeed. He never turned in homework, rarely attended class, and when he did, all he did was flirt with the girls. How did he get an A under this tough professor who was a sadistic tyrant?
The entire class was frightened to death come the day of the final exam. Most were bleary eyed from studying all night for the past several days in preparation for it. Not this guy, he came breezing in fresh as a full blooming flower. The steely eyed professor stalked to the blackboard and growled, “Here is your final exam”, and he wrote the word Why? on the blackboard. In less than a minute our student got up turned his paper in and left. Everyone else spent the entire three hours writing their response to the test question. Final grades were posted.
There was one student who made the lone A for the philosophy class, and lo and behold it belonged to the guy who took the final exam in less than a minute, the guy who never did homework and rarely attended class and when he did was disruptive. This bum got the only A!!! Everyone was shocked. They sought out the professor and asked for an explanation as to how this guy had succeeded and he stated that it was all due to his grade for the final exam. “They are right over there if you want to see them”, he growled. The other students opened his folder and there scrawled in response to the question, Why? was written: Because!
Sometimes we just get too wrapped up in trying to determine answers for which there is no simple explanation. An example, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Perhaps we should just be content with:
“Because!”
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are my ways higher than our ways.
And My thoughts than your thoughts.