Hurt

Where is God when we hurt? Where is God when disaster falls upon us?

Where is God when a child is sick, or when someone we love dies suddenly?

I have often heard people say these things. Why is it that we are all quick to blame God when something goes wrong? How often then, do we praise him when something goes right? Let’s go one step further. In a day, how often do we acknowledge God just because the sun is shining? Or as were running for a bus or scrolling down a computer screen. Perhaps we should think about him then, when we do not need him, when for no other reason in our lives but to just acknowledge a God who hung on the gallows to prove once and for all, with pierced hands and blood-stained face – that, he is here. That he did not create the hurt, but came to take it away.

When you hurt, and when no one is there to listen to you; God listens to you. Sometimes storms of life come to teach us that God is in control. We must lean on him and learn to be thankful for even the smallest things in life.

Let’s think of God even when the darkness comes into our lives. Even when we don’t understand the whys? Especially when the unexpected things happen in our lives and they don’t make sense.

“Nothing is louder than the silence of God. But Father, forgive us for the times we’ve interpreted your silence, as a lack of love. Give us patience, for we know you’ll answer … if only we will wait.”