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NASB | John 9:1 As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 9:1 While He was passing by, He noticed a man [who had been] blind from birth. |
Bible Question:
In a recent trip to a very devastated area of Honduras (Central America) where poverty and human misery is as crude as you can imagine, I was ask “Were is God when little children are abused or people are killed or people die of starvation?” Could you provide me with an answer to this an perhaps a biblical verse or two in this regard. Thank you, Francisco Chaparro |
Bible Answer: Hi Francisco, Your question reminds me of a poem I saw, written by a young woman shortly after 9/11: ONE NATION UNDER GOD God where were you yesterday? I looked for you everywhere You were so hard to find my father came home from Bible study dropped his car keys, a bag of groceries, his Bible to the counter and looked at me "This is a crazy world," he said in a voice pained and flat I did not understand until he turned on the T.V. God did you see? the television flashed black and white footage two hijacked planes flying into New York crashing into the World Trade twin towers God where were you? when New Yorkers ran through the streets tucking their faces in their shirts and ash and smoke, death and dying all around in my America? a women on the radio said it was like confetti white confetti falling from the skies I thought of Virginia's white snows in winter the silvery fall from the skies was that what death was like? Virginia winter confetti there were men, women did you see them God? jumping from the buildings like birds with clipped wings did you hold their hands when they made the leap into your world? the Trade buildings came tumbling down like a child's wooden block tower God did you see? another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon and still another crash in Pennsylvania? were you sitting next to the woman who called her husband on the cell phone and said good bye did you know there were children at school studying Geometry, History - the neat type-set of grammar texts did you know some of these children came home, fatherless or motherless, changed in one day? God I tried to eat yesterday but my bowl of cereal tasted like and ash and death God I tried to sleep yesterday but my heart hurt and I kept waking to the memories of police officers pulling people from the wreckage like treasures from a buried chest brave firefighters choking on smoke and tears fighting the fires, the death Americans saving themselves, each other and then I found you God later " Attack on America" was the headline I tried to say it out loud but the words sounded strange on my lips in my America? land of the free , the 4th of July, desert storm, the America I pledged to in grade school the 50 stars I counted over and over from my desk the flag I learned to fold in Girl Scouts parades and campaign buttons, the field trips to DC museums and monuments the pride in my voice on the trip to Europe when the German man asked where I was from and I smiled back and answered "Ich bin von den Vereinigten Staaten" "one nation under God-Liberty and Justice for all" dear God this all happened in my America did you see the tears of Americans I thought I heard you crying with the country You were with us yesterday and today when we move through the debris waking from a terrible dream yesterday is a toss and tangle of sheets Mayor Guiliani is on the screen his face is drawn like a dark curtain his shaking hand is squeezed by another leader and he speaks sadly but proudly insists we go back to life live as normal as possible eat at restaurants, drink coffee at cafes talk, walk the streets holding hands but also pray, give blood pull the last of the living from the rubble God this happened in my America but so did the saving, the prayer services the candlelight vigils the long line to donate blood the officers giving their lives You were with us yesterday God you are with us today and I need to feel you, remember the saving in my America because my dad said this is a crazy world and I'm only 22 God learning to put trust in a world I can't always trust for now I'll put my trust in you and my trust in America because this is still my America my waving flag of the stars and stripes, my promised freedom God I see you so clearly today You are holding my America crying for my America opening your hands You set my America free because we are ready to fly on our own because God was with us yesterday and God lives in America today --Kirsten Porter |
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