WHY DID GOD ALLOW THIS?
Lamentations 1:
How many times have we heard that question?
This last week I was privileged to be with the people of only a few of the many Philippine Islands devastated by the Haiyan typhoon.
I actually asked that question to people who had seen such devastation that they thought they would die and many of course did.
I realised it was the wrong question.
For they answered a question I hadn’t asked. God was with us in the typhoon.
The weeping prophet begins “how deserted lies the city” and so Lamentations begins.
What we understand is that the “why God?” Question is actually not that important for the comfort we need. Jeremiah knew why, “because of her sins”v5. Imagine giving that answer the next time someone asks you, “Why God?”
Why is not as important as where.
Where is God? God is here.
Even in this chapter which tells of God rejecting His peoples 15, ultimately they will see God had never left them.
But I can see God.
I can see the foreshadowing of Jesus weeping over the city of Jerusalem,v1.
I can see the scoffers and those casting insults on Jesus as he hung from the cross, I see this in v12.
I can see him who stretched out His hands, v17.
Can you see Him in your life?
The next time an unbeliever asks you why answer them with the where, that he is here with them just as you are with them.
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