Inspirational
God Doesn’t Make Sense
Even to hard-core believers, sometimes God doesn’t make sense.
This, in essence, was what I gleaned from our pastor’s message one Sunday. I nodded so hard the pew shook and my head almost came off my neck.
Why would a God Who loves us, Who came down His throne to save inconsequential us from our sins, allow senseless things to happen?
Why would God allow 44 police (SAF) to be massacred by heartless murderers?
Why would God allow pastors and missionaries to be persecuted and killed?
Why wouldn’t God answer the prayers for peace in war-torn countries?
And the most shuddering news in recent days—the barbaric beheading of 21 Christians by the ISIS. Why would God allow His children’s innocent blood to spill into the sea?
From accounts of those who witnessed the savage execution, the helpless victims were repeating the words “Lord, Jesus Christ.” Some screamed “Yeshua!”
When Pope Francis visited the Philippines recently, a 12-year-old girl asked him through her tears, “Why is God allowing [bad things] to happen, even to innocent children?”
The head of over 1.2 billion Roman Catholics was stumped. Visibly moved, he had no answer. He could only say, “Only when we are able to cry are we able to come close to responding to your question.”
Humans have finite minds, and because we think simply, we can’t even begin to approximate God’s thoughts. In Isaiah 55:8, we read, “‘My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.’”
No, we can never imagine the boundless grace that comes to us every second of every day. That’s why we don’t thank Him enough. Our simple minds simply can’t fathom the sense of many things happening to us.
We, hard-core believers in His unconditional love, with the faith of a child, can only trust, simply trust.
