CLM 662 God Suffers with His People

From: rowlandc@mira.net

Tue, 14 Jul 1998

     Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 662 

     Here's another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions
     'Sunrise Sunset' (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free
     to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list.

     Shalom!  Rowland Croucher

     Director, John Mark Ministries - resources for pastors/leaders.
       (Bookroom, library, and worldwide F.W.Boreham Trading Post)
      http://www.pastornet.net.au/jmm (1200+ articles  1000+ links)

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GOD SUFFERS WITH HIS PEOPLE
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If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:31.


Some of our most urgent questions are 'Where is God when it
hurts?' and 'Is God deaf?'.  From biblical times God's
apparent absence or silence have puzzled and pained his
people.

In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot 'God', we assume, does
not come.  Since Auschwitz we wonder if we can still praise
him.  And today, in many parts of the world, his servants are
ridiculed, tortured and killed. (And the cries of the martyrs
are still louder than those protesting the injustices done to
them).

God is not deaf; he is listening. He suffers with his people,
and hears their cries. 'Where was your God when my son was
killed in a car accident?' asked the distraught mother.
Replied the pastor quietly, 'The same place he was when his
son was killed.'

When life is hard, I will look to you. When problems assume
giant proportions, I will trust you. When I cannot cope, I
ask for your strength Lord. You care about me, and I love
you. Amen.
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