With the shooting at Discovery Middle School followed by more at UAH, you may be asking:
“Where are you, God, in all this?”
“Where are you, God, in all this?”
Allen’s lesson on February 21 confirmed your right to ask it.
- Questioning is a form of struggling that helps you grow and mature.
- Questioning is one way you work out your faith.
- Questioning validates the existence of God. (You’re still asking Him the question, after all).
The only hope to solving the death problem (pain) was for God to enter our world to fix it. So Jesus did.
And as God’s mouthpieces, what should Christians be saying?
- God: “I will be with you always.”
Christian: “I’m here for you.”
- God: “My grace is sufficient.”
Christian: “I’m here to help.”
- God: “Do not fear.”
Christian: “We’ll get through this together.”
- God: “Justice will prevail.”
Christian: “Let me share my faith with you.”
Be working with God to perform gracious acts.
And be listening for God to hear what He's saying.
good stuff reflecting back on it although i must confess my mind was spinning in a dozen different directions as i encountered so many faces i hadn't seen in 3.5 years
ReplyDeletethe sermon reminds me of a similarly timely one that Kraig Brown delivered after the riots in LA, he made the point that the problem there wasn't black and white but it was black and white (well, that's my turn of a phrase now, forget his exact words), it wasn't a clash between black and white in racial terms but a clash between good and evil, the problem wasn't so much racism but sin (and racism is a sin too, but multiple sins beyond racism arose) and repaying evil for evil which is completely contrary to Romans 12 (and a half dozen other verses), when the creatures turn their focus in upon themselves and off their Creator problems like this arise and will continue to arise, only Jesus can break down the walls between us, only He can unite us and only He can keep us united