The other night I was looking at the news concerning the terrible tragedy from the earthquake and resulting tidal waves in the Indian ocean. During the piece the announcer made this statement: "…people everywhere are wondering where was God when the tragedy happened". At first I thought the announcer was just being a regular pompous idiot, but the more I thought about his statement, the more I think I learned about him and many people in general. Let me see if I can put it in words. The best way I know to start is to say maybe the announcer's better question would have been " Where was Buddha" or "Where was Allah" or "Where was Confucius " or "Where was Hare' Krishna " and the list goes on. It seems those to be better questions seeing that the "god" of those areas of the world falls primarily to one of the "gods" I mentioned. BUT if the announcer is going to ask the question " Where was God" it says a lot about what the Christian church and our Jewish friends have been saying for millennia. That there is but ONE living God.
Our country fights tooth and nail to resist every connection we have to God; the Bible, the 10 commandments, prayer, Christmas and Easter traditions during good times. It's done as though the Lord is just some bedtime story fairy tale character. We are told there are many paths (gods) to get to Heaven. When some disaster comes along, not these many gods, but the God of the Bible is then given the credit / blame for the unlimited power and might for causing or allowing the disaster to occur. Seems awfully fickle or that at the real root of man's soul is the knowledge that the God of the Bible actually exists.
So then where was God ? Where He always has been; in Heaven and living in and through His born-again belivers on Earth.
Phynerk
