Just a thought by coppi

Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions.  And, as a result, we face fears.  It’s not the absence of storms that sets us apart.  It’s whom we discover in the storm— an unstirred Christ.  (Max Lucado 1/2/19)

The wonderful hope of Christianity tells me that I will see my siblings, mother, father & friends who have gone before again. But more, it assures me that the God of Christianity is one who walks with us now in our pain and in our struggle. 

My husband and I in our morning devotions yesterday were discussing the ‘why do believers in God have to suffer so many tragedies if their God is all powerful’. Why?  We have all heard the different reasons in the scriptures; I will quote several, but does it settle the why in your heart? Mt 5:45: “He sends rain on those who are right with God and on those who are not right with God”. ” And this is Satan’s kingdom and his reign to destroy the way people; people who follow and believe in God”. Do I know the answer- no.  I had to come to the fact that, yes, we do live in a fallen world, Satan’s last reign, and our God is not a respecter of people, and He sends rain on the just as well as the unjust.  But He does say I will not leave you alone but will go with you through the valleys of shadows of death.  As Max Lucado said “it’s whom we discover in the storm”.  My dear mother, when I would question the whys of the happenings in my life, would say “God is weaving a pattern, and you will understand it in the great by and by”. The longer I live, the less I know, but  I pray for wisdom.  C. S. Lewis wrote, “I don’t pray to change God. I pray because I have to. I pray because I can’t help myself. It doesn’t change God. It changes me.” To sums my thought up, ugly happens in our world, always has, and I presume will continue until the end of time – nope-I still don’t understand ‘why’, but I do know in whom I believe, Jesus, and I have discovered Him in the storms of my life.