Subject: Did God cause the tsunami |
Bible Note: Job 5:18 For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal. I just like that verse, even though it doesn't really pertain to what I'm saying below! Couldn't it be that God allowed this tsunami, maybe so a greater good could come out of it? It always seems as though the tragedies we live through, survive through, or exoerience loss in, usually seem to bring us closer to God, or even just more aware of God, more aware that nothing in this life can be taken for granted and that we don't know what tomorrow brings. I know there is a verse and probably more than one verse that talks about how nothing is certain what God gives He can certainly take away. But we don't know God's will necessarily, we can predict and argue and compose theories, but it's not for us to decide what God did and why. He allowed it for some purpose, but to have faith like a child, we need to stop questioning these things. I know I do all of the time, and it just ends up making me more confused and lost. It doesn't help us learn or know God any better by questioning things that really have no answer. Plus, if you remember in the book of Job, Job's 3 friends all had theories as to why Job was suffering. Remember they were all wrong? And God was angry, "After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "I am angry with you and with your two friends, for you have not been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was." Job 42:7-8. I don't know, I'm just rambling now. I could be wrong, I'll be the first to admitt that, but out of everything bad, usually something good comes out. When my friend died a few years ago, I didn't see how that could possibly be true. But his parents adopted 3 orphans from Albania and are giving them a wonderful home now. What would have become of them had he not died? Of course his death was horrible, and no person can make up for that kind of a loss, but 3 little boys have a home now. Forgive my rambling. I'm done! Promise! |