In the aftermath of the Boston bombing....
I recognize that there are no pat answers for the WHY? of human suffering. Yet, here is a different approach than the one mentioned yesterday.
W - Wrestle with the issue, don't wallow in it. Turn to scripture; ask
questions; the Psalmist did. "Why are you cast down, O my soul? and
why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him
for the help of his countenance." (Psalm 42:5)
H - Hope in God;
don't be hopeless. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected end." (Jer. 29:11) Some translations say, "...to give you a hope and a future."
Y - Yield to Christ..
Don't turn to yourself for the answers. Think of his promised end -
the Holy City the new Jerusalem. "And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more
pain: for the former things are passed away." (Rev. 21:4)
Joni
Earekson Tada, Bethany Hamilton, and Robert Rogers are examples of
people who have taken their extreme suffering and turned to God within
it. Robert Rogers is speaking next week, April 24th, in Drexel Hill, PA.
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