*********************************************** God
is love and… Some people in pain just don’t …just won’t believe
it. They believe in God - but they just don’t believe He
is good. They’ve seen the good die and the bad prosper.
They’ve seen the strong devour the weak.
They’ve seen too much suffering and pain and they cry
out into the night, “If God is love, then why must there be so much that is
unlovely?”
Well, needless to say, I’m not going to
solve the paradox of problem and pain all in one Sabbath notation. But I am
going to talk to the paradox and categorically state that I personally believe
in a loving God.
I believe He knows what He is doing
and He does nothing without reason. After all, he sees a total picture and we
only a pixel or two.
I believe that what confuses me,
as a child of God, is understood with infinite wisdom by my eternal heavenly
Father.
I believe these things not with a blind faith
that will not ask questions, but with a strong faith that admits I will never
have all the answers.
Let me tell you a story.
Once a man built a weather vane. He then set it up on
top of his barn in full sight of any and all who traveled the well-worn road
that weaved through his farm lands.
Then underneath the
weather vane, he placed a plaque that read, GOD IS LOVE.
His neighbors, and even a few strangers, stopped by to
comment, “Why did you put ‘God is love’ beneath your weather vane.”
“Ah, now” the farmer would always reply, “I just wanted
to emphasize that God is love no matter which way the wind blows.”
How does that scripture go? “Dear friends, let us love
one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God
and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1
John 4:7-8)
John Greenleaf Whittier, the famous
American poet, put it this way:
I see the wrong that
round me lies, I feel the guilt within; I hear with groan and
travail-cries, The world confess its sin.
Yet in the maddening maze of
things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit
slings; I know that God is good! I know not where His islands
lift Their fronded palms in air. I only know I cannot drift Beyond His
love and
care.
*********************************************** To
view an abundance of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A
DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
No comments:
Post a Comment