What Is God Feeling About This?

It's been a hard week for me to post a blog. Hard to think of anything else right now but to feel for the people in the southern United States whose homes and virtual lives lie under feet of water, mud and rubble. My heart aches for every living soul there! I couldn't stop watching CNN. Every time I come home, I click on the television and tune to channel 200 to see how they are progressing in Louisiana. But it doesn't seem like they are making any. The Governor asked that the nation keep their situation in our prayers. But deep inside, I want to be there to help but they seem to have just about all the resource they can find: National Guard, police officers, Red Cross personnels, construction workers, reporters and some people who were already stuck in Louisiana have become volunteers to help! I'm sure that is a very common dilemma right now. It's hard to pull yourself away because it is so hard to imagine this happening to anybody, much less someone you know. It's moments like this when we feel so frail and helpless as human beings. We are victims of forces way beyond our control.

I don't know how to quote this because it's way beyond my capacity to understand situations like this. Is this an “Act of God.” It doesn't fare too well for God's reputation, huh? Is it that God doesn't have anything better to do than devastate the lives of hundreds of thousands of people? To some it may seem like that. Our human minds and nature doesn't quite understand all this. It is as if we're wrestling with a million pieces of puzzle that, never in our lives, would we be able to solve it? Impossible! The only way we do, because of our human nature, is that we call natural disasters “Acts of God” because there is no other way to explain them.

Therefore, I prefer to awesomely believe that God is and always has been and always will be in control, even through situations like this. Then we accept the inconsistencies that come with that belief, rather than living in the world where God is "NOT" in control and worse than the Louisiana situation, and where there is no purpose for our existence and no one there to hear our silent cries for help.

We are a very fragile living beings in need of God! We must understand (through the historical accounts in the Bible - The Flood, Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joseph being sold into slavery by his own brothers, 400 years as slaves (Israel) in Egypt, many losses in battle against God's enemies (because of disobedience), exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon (606 B.C.), destruction of Jerusalem (70 A.D.) and a whole lot more! The same God who "allowed nature to take its course" allowed the world and His human creation go bad, then turned around and sacrificed His own Son in a horrible death in order to save the world! Now, do we understand that? Probably not! We're still struggling with the great things God has done and we don't say word. But when bad things God seems to have done, we turn to Him with clenched fist and curse Him!

But believe me! God continues to be the Protectant on those who deeply depends on Him for His hand! God doesn't expect you to understand but He wants us to learn to understand. Just as God suffered over His Son, Jesus, heartbroken over these loss of His Son on the cross. Whatever you feel, you can be sure God feels also, and then some. God is a compassionate God who does aches for His children. He will turn our lives and devastations into good somehow, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been alled according to his purpose." Romans 8:28 (niv).

Life moves on and God will still be our God.