God is sovereign.
I have a friend who has MS......developed it in his late teens, and is confined to a wheelchair.
Every time the church door is open, he is there.....and he is there joyfully, and singing to the best of his ability.
His testimony is he would rather be in his wheelchair and knowing the Lord.......then walking tall & straight & not knowing Him.
Does he blame God for allowing this to happen?
No, he doesn't.
Does he think God could bring him out of that wheelchair if God so chooses.
Yes, he does.
Does this knowledge make him bitter.
No, because he accepts God's sovereignty.
Will he walk tall & straight when he reaches heaven.
You bet!
We know there were Christians on that plane that crashed in Pennsylvania........ ....there were Christians in the World Trade Center.
Could God have saved them.
Yes.
Because He chooses not too....(at least in the manner we expect)....does not negate His authority.
Does Lisa Beamer (Todd's wife) accept this.
Yes, she does.
Will she miss her husband.....and mourn his passing?
Of course!
During World War II.....Corrie Ten Boom, a middle age Christan spinster, lived with her aging father & sister in Holland.
They were successful in rescuing many Jews and smuggling them to freedom.
When, eventually, the Ten Booms were caught by the Gestapo, they were taken to headquarters and interrogated.....inevitably taken on to concentration camps.
At one point, trying to shake Corrie into confessing, the Gestapo leader taunted her with the sure knowledge that her dear father was dead and beyond her help.
Her response was..."I KNOW where my father is"....
..giving assurance that she knew her father was beyond hurt, pain or misery but in a far better life.
Don't you think Corrie, her sister and father would rather have lived a simple, respectable, cozy life in their little home........but they chose something higher, purer.
I know you must be absolutely beyond anger at what was done to this young lady.
I know I am.
But truly, we ALL are vulnerable of what tomorrow brings into our life.
Being prepared spiritually is what we need to do today!
I would choose to argue that God had no hand whatsoever in the heinous acts upon that woman.
It was the hand of man that did it. It is the state of our civilization, of our treatment of each other as human beings, the weakness of man to choose the easy road, the evil route to satisfy worldly desires.
God gave us the freedom to choose, for good or for bad, and these two men made their choice.
God no more intervened in their commission of the act, then he did when these two men were conceived.
That is the what God did. He gave us freedom of choice, and look what some people do with it.