Posted on 11/23/2012 8:38:07 PM PST by carlo3b
WHERE’S GOD...?
Have you ever wondered where in the world is GOD, when we are witnessing unspeakable horrors throughout the world each and every hour of each and every day?
Forget listening to the news, local, national, or heaven forbid international news, there isn’t a moment’s peace in the world if we accept what we are told... Heck, we can’t even turn on the TV, log on to the computer, or flip on the radio at the top of any hour of the day or night, without being reminded of the suffering of our fellow humans, not just in countries that we have come to know half way around the globe.. But, down the block, or an innocent day care center, that we pass on our way to the mall.. Don’t even get me started on what is happening at malls…
We all know about the NEWS, if it bleeds, it leads.. That doesn’t mean it isn’t happening, it’s all about holding us hostage to our nature, like slowing down to view an accident, secretly hoping to see some tragedy.. Don’t lie, at least to yourself.. If you don’t like the news, don’t turn it on.. Better than that, if you can’t handle the bad in the world, stay in bed!
How could this be happening, where are we going, and when is going to stop, if ever, and most importantly, where in the world is GOD when we need HIM?
If we are so self-absorbed, or fragile, perhaps we’re looking for GOD in all the wrong places.. Maybe there really isn’t any GOD, and no one is to be blamed for the evil in the world.. I know it’s pretty popular today to deny GOD.. We are being bombarded and snickered at, it’s called enlightened to refuse the existence of ALMIGHTY today..
To be sure, I am the wrong guy to lay out the case for the faithful; I am in no way religious, using today’s interpretation, I’m a heathen.. I was raised Roman Catholic, but I stopped going to Church regularly, when the kids grew up, and left the nest.. And, the older I get, I find it harder to defend some of the core issues of my contemporaries.. However, I’m not quite a “live and let live” yet.. Just look around at today’s culture, and you can see where that has gotten us…
If the sunrise, the Redwood Forest, and a baby’s smile, doesn’t do it for you, I’m at a loss to persuade you of the fundamentals of the true believers, I’m here for the BIG PICTURE! Lets bring it closer to home.. My GOD is a lot closer to me than answering my hopes for a Pulitzer.. I don’t need you to see a patch on my sleeve, or my quotations of the passages from the Bible, to justify my faith, not that there is anything remotely wrong with having that devout a commitment, I have simpler, and a much more personal relationship with MY SAVIOR.. By today’s standards I’m shallow, but it works for me, and it just might for you too..
I am not perfect! I know, I know what you think, but I am not really flawless..… My GOD is with me all of the time, he sees me, hears me, watches everything that I do, and for that reason, he has to be forgiving, because I am no Angel.. However, because he is omnipresent, and because I know when I screw up, and I’m ashamed of it when I do.. I believe, that you are exactly what you do every minute of the day.. If you lie and deceive, even some of the time, you’re a phony, clear and simple.. If you steal even a pencil, you’re a thief!
Be honest with yourself, if not because you know it, but MY GOD is watching too, and he is has your best interest in your BIG PICTURE.. He doesn’t stop me, that is my job, I already know what is wrong, and when I need to catch a break, he nudges me to remember what I really did when HE needed me to behave in HIS image.. I don’t have a fear of GOD, I have his respect to live up to.. I don’t walk around in constant shame, because I’m not a bad person.. I only get what I am willing to give.. Get it?
I don’t expect MY GOD to stop the horrific actions in the world, but GOD knows each of us, personally.. If you expect GOD to protect you, then you have no responsibility for your actions, therefore no blame, no reason to improve.. If you expect GOD to give you that break, when the chips are down, what did you do when the chips were down in your own life.. Did you earn your break when you were dealing with others?
Today, I’m sick as Hell, but I didn’t always take care of myself, when I should have, and I knew it.. But I am a happy person, sick or well, not by nature, but because I earned it.. When you do good, and live clean, at least most of the time, you have earned a break when you really need it.. And GOD knows, I’ve had those breaks when it seemed all was lost.. MY GOD is a kind of a score keeper..
Here is where I might depart from my brethren, I’m not too sure about the afterlife, I’m going to get the best out of the HERE AND NOW.. THANK GOD..
I’m wearing my flambe retardant suit! Fire away..
I’m wearing my flambe retardant suit! Fire away..
God is within us. If we look outside of ourselves, we will not find Him.
We must look within.
I don't know where you expect Him to be, but I do know where I expect Him to not be.
I’m wearing my flambe retardant suit! Fire away..
The author sounds like a lot of people when they speculate about God. I don’t have the answers either. I do know one thing. I am grateful for what I have and the people in my life. When I catch myself feeling ungrateful, I remember that it could always be worse. Then I go about the business of making sure it only gets better.
At no point in human history has the average person been less likely to die violently than today - this is the most peaceful the world has ever been.
When God seems far away......... Who moved?..
If you prayed for discernment, and then read the Bible, you wouldn’t need to ask that question.
>> MY GOD is a kind of a score keeper..
Not the best sentence in the article.
Good subject regarding the expectations we each have or once had.
Good answers.
>> I’m wearing my flambé retardant suit!
Good thing, cuz you might get grilled.
God is everywhere, at all times.
It’s just that sometimes (most of the time?) we can’t, or won’t, see Him.
Only through His Grace may we be saved.
Pray for us.
Possibly the more germane question would be, “Does G-d regret giving the human race freedom of choice...?”
G-d is all around us, all the time; He holds us all in the palms of His hands.
And He weeps for the idiocies we perpetrate on one another and on ourselves.
God might very well be asking,
“Where are my people? Where are those who I called when I entered into this world in their own flesh? Where are those who I redeemed when I carried their sins in that same flesh on the tree of the cross? Where are those on whom I sent my eternal presence in the person of the Holy Spirit? Where are those who I have nourished not only through my words but through my own Body and Blood?”
If God seems absent from the world it is because much of the world has been absent from God.
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”—John 6:29
Where’s God? Same place He’s always been; as near as our next breath. But our enlightened and affluent culture has replaced Him with lesser gods more to their liking. IOW, we don’t need Him any more...or so our enlightened leadership would have us believe. I’ve read The Book; it doesn’t end well.
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