Where is Their God?

When the sound of punished steel, forcefully distressed glass, and overly flexed polymers came to a rest, it still seemed like an eternity before the smoke and dust of the impact would settle and clear. Just a drive home...just a daily routine...no sin involved...no drunk driver...just a momentary lapse of judgment. Lives would be changed forever and scars would remain...Where is God? Why would He allow this?

Such joyful energy and anxious anticipation all wrapped up in this one moment. Two lives focused and waiting for a small voice to cry out. Two lives reaching for a tiny hand to feel the reciprocal extension of life's expected fulfillment, BUT it doesn't come. A very clean and brightly lit room now becomes a very still, very sad hall of grief.Hopes of joy become a blur of tears,empty arms and shame. Why us? Where is God?

Such a Godly Saint ... always there for others. Now laying listlessly in a room filled with pictures but no people...no earthly comforters during this time of unmerciful pain and suffering. It just doesn't seem fair! Is this the reward for a life of selfless service for the King? Where is God? Why this end?

Usually surrounding these events is a hoard of hellish imps who will chant accusations and caste lying "if only" statements about, hoping these unfounded words will be believed. And sadly, the lies offered to the aching, abandoned, broken hearts will be believed just long enough to separate and isolate us from the truth of the character of God's love.

STOP IN THE THOUGHT OF THESE MOMENTS...
CRY OUT FROM THE REALITY OF THE PAIN...
CRY OUT IN THE ABANDONMENT OF SHAME...we feel the shame it is real.
"JESUS!! Here my cry!"

Zephaniah 3:5

"The just LORD is in the midst thereof;"

(Where is God? Right in the middle of it ...He is there)

"HE will not do iniquity:"

(He will not do injustice ...He will do nothing unfair)

"every morning doth HE bring HIS judgment to light,"

(He is bringing the deliverance of a New Morning)

"HE faileth not;"

(He will never let us down because HE IS WITH US)

"but the unjust knoweth no shame."

What ??? What did that part of the verse just say???

"the unjust, the perverse, the wicked, the lost...knows, learns to know...no shame???

Read this last line carefully and feel the full force of the Word in its totality.

The unjust do not learn that shame brings God into the middle of our lives to bring us to a place of "no shame".
Romans 10:11 - " For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed"

His Grace will always deliver us from disgrace because He is with us...He will deliver us.

Where is their God??...in the middle of their pain, in the middle of their shame.
Where is your God?

HLFA,

Jeff