As a pastor's wife and mom to two children with Autism I have heard so many people ask, "Why would a faithful...loving...caring...compassionate...God allow _________? For so many people this is a cry that is so deep. It's a cry from a broken bleeding heart of pain, sadness, anger, frustration, and helplessness. We want to know who's in charge and who's to blame so we can get them to make it right, much in the same way that we have the person who runs into the back of our car fix the damage they caused. The problem is that, in the case of our Loving Heavenly Father, He didn't cause anything. These things happen because we live in a fallen world. That is the reality. Is it a nice reality? NOPE. Not even remotely. As a matter of fact it's pretty darn depressing. Bad stuff happens. You can count on it. Some of it inconvenient some of it life altering. Sounds pretty hopeless. Here's where the hope comes from. Our Faithful, Loving, Caring, Compassionate, God knew we needed hope and he is the God of Hope. He gave us his Son to over come death and sin at the cross, giving us Eternal hope and Salvation from the hopelessness that is this world. Here's the kicker, we still have to live here on Earth, in a fallen and sinful world of sickness, death, disease, and disability, however, he has overcome this world. Our eyes are on Eternity. Our time here on Earth is but a moment compared to Eternity in Heaven with our Lord.
So what, you say. There are whole books written about this. All of them written by people way more well trained and spiritually mature than I am. Well, that is true but this blog is the beginning of a path for me. A path of looking at every day with my two children and my life as a whole and asking the question, "Why would a Faithful God allow______". I want to try to look at the things our family goes through daily through the eyes of a faithful, loving, and compassionate God and see why he would "allow" it to happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment