Where Was God On 9/11?

Psalm 27

 ¹The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
 ²When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
 ³Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.


I remember that cool September morning. I had just kissed my husband at the door and was getting lunches ready for my girls who attended our Christian School. I had my small television on in the kitchen as I was running with the chores of the day. It was a day like any other. I had made an appointment to list our home with a Realtor ~not really sure I wanted to sell the home of my dreams. It is a lot of work owning a hundred year old house~ still I hated selling it! I was feeling uneasy about the appointment. We were running late as usual but as we were walking out the door I was going to turn off the television~ something was horribly wrong~ I was just not prepared for what splashed across the screen. I stared in shock at the surreal images of two airplanes flying into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. We jumped in the car and I turned on the radio to listen as all America stood still as the horrible attacks on our homeland unfolded. I really no longer wanted to sell my home. I wanted to feel safe again. Little did I know that 10 years later I would never feel the safety I had grown up knowing as a free American~and to think I was hated for being an American. As we all know that morning changed our lives forever.  My kids don't even remember the world as it was before that day.

Why do bad things happen to good people? It is a question we have been asking since the beginning of time. I have been following Christ for a long time~ almost 40 years. In my humanness I still have a hard time understanding why wicked~ horrible people get by with their evil. Yet ~ good and Godly people sometimes
suffer and it is if God has sealed the windows of Heaven and turned His ear to their prayers.  But you and I both know that life is not fair and that our human logic is a shallow substitute for God's sovereignty. We are broken people who live in a broken world for sure. Bad things do happen to good people and it's been that way for a long time.

Remember Job~ we all remember but we would rather not take a close look at this man. A man that God called perfect and upright. He did good and eschewed evil all his days. This is God describing Him~ almighty God!  (Job 1:8-12) God allowed Satan to take all his worldly wealth, his children, his respect and even his health just to prove to Satan that Job loved God not just because of all his blessings but because he just loved Him.  Even when Satan took all Job had~ he fell to the ground and worshiped God.