The question we've all asked... Christians ask it when we can't see Him, unbelievers ask it when they see "bad" things happen, and I can not tell you how many times even I've asked it. In the blackest of blackness, we go through trials, we breathe in nothing but sorrow and anxiety, and we ask Where Is God?
My friend and GoFM Founder, Kevin, wrote a post fairly similar in nature to this called, "The Need for Sorrow." The following quote from this article does well to answer this question and, more importantly, how we view our trials.
"First off we have to realize we can't BLAME God for these things. Without free will, love cannot exist. Being that God gave us free will He cannot control our actions without revoking it and forcing us to love Him. This free will of ours also leads to free will of others... You make a decision to go to the store at late hours and a person in the same area makes a decision to rob you at gunpoint. You are not at fault, but neither is God."
And what if we stop... listen... look around for a bit... And what if we take into consideration everything we know about our Father in heaven. He is a soverign fortress. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He cared enough about us to send His Son to die for us. That's a lot of love. He sees your pain, He sees that trial or the trials you are going through, broken homes, broken bodies in need of healing, broken lives. The message is... God is able to bring you through this, not because He has to, but because He wants to. Where is God? Right where He always has been, looking at you no different than He did yesterday... as His beloved, His treasure, His child, His friend.
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