Isaiah 53:4
(KJV)
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Where is God when bad things happen?
Was God sadistically absent? That’s what Robert McClory, professor emeritus of journalism at the Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, asked after Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans area of the US.
We may like to blame God when disasters come knocking at our door but God is not missing at all. No, McClory insists. Talking about the Katrina tragedy, he said that God was invisibly present “with the suffering and the dying. He was in the individuals, communities, churches, and schools that organized aid for the victims and took evacuees into their cities and homes. He was with the hundreds of thousands who showed compassion by prayer and financial assistance.”
Even more recently our fellow Missourians in Joplin have once again felt the devastation of Mother Nature! It is said that the churches are the ones who have come through the most! God's people ~ offering a helping hand and love!
It is so in our lives as well when a heartbreaking tragedy, scary news from the Doctor, a wayward child or the death of a loved one comes to call. We have no satisfactory answer to life's painful problems ~ except the Fall. Yet the Bible does remind us that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. This is a spiritual battle we are facing~ it is not Heaven. Can I get an Amen here? However we do know that the Lord is present with us. Our "Immanuel" which literally means God is with us~ will never leave us or forsake us. He has walked with me and held me up at times I could not hold myself up. My God has never forsaken me~ that is worth celebrating on this 110 degree Missouri day!
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Aunt Kim Update
Have a thankful Tuesday~ I am thankful for this boy!
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