Where Is God?

Recently, I have been reading a book by Phillip Yancey entitled “Disappointment With God”.  In it Yancey wrestles with ”three questions no one ever asks”:  ”Is God unfair?”  ”Is God hidden?” ”Is God silent?”.  As we watch and listen to the unfolding tragedy in Haiti, one is challenged to wrestle with those very questions and perhaps many more.  For instance: “Where is God in all of this?”  “Does He really care?”  “Why does He let things like this happen?”. 

Pat answers just aren’t sufficient at times like this, nor should they be.  The magnitude of human suffering demands more than pat answers from us.  In his wrestlings with such questions, Yancey takes time to pause and attempt the impossible, to see and understand tragedy from God’s perspective:  “What does God see?”, “What does God feel?”, “What is He thinking?”. 

Two quotes from this book provoke me and comfort me:  ”God insists on healing the world from the bottom up, instead of the top down” and “When tragedy strikes, we live in the shadow, unaware of what is transpiring in the unseen world…once again God will let his reputation ride on the response of unpredictable human beings.”

Gives you something to think about doesn’t it? PW