Where is God when the tsunami’s of the world occur? One reporter asks. Afraid the answers are not very satisfying if we are looking for a God that would always intervene to prevent disasters. The reporter obviously struggles with the lack of satisfying answers.
I ask the same questions even though I know the “right” answers. I hang on to the fact that I have experienced God’s presence and know him to be real. Even caring. Even omnipotent. I hang on to these facts of my own experience even when I can’t understand with my intellect what God is doing. If Jesus wept over Lazarus, how he must be weeping now.
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Looking through my dark glass, I too grapple for answers. Some of the things I’m convinced of are that God really is Love, that we live in a fallen world where God generally chooses not to interfere with natural causes, and that he chooses ordinary people to fulfil his plans and defeat evil. I believe that God is grieving for the tsunami victims. The question I need to ask myself is whether I’m just saying “oh how dreadful” until the next TV distraction comes along, or am I following his prompting to help, e.g. http://www.worldvision.ca
I’m there with you Phil. It’s almost like God asking us if we really want to put our money/time/efforts where our mouths are…saying to us, “widows, you want to care for widows like I’ve asked you to?….well, there are several thousand in Asia to care for. What are you going to do about it?….and starving children, you want to feed the poor? Here are several million more.” I don’t believe he causes the disasters but he causes us to choose whether to act or not in the face of the disaster. He just continues to present us with opportunities to choose…..and in turn, for us to act upon that choice.