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Serious believers know that every life we live each passing day is by the will of God because God is the ultimate giver, taker and edifier of life. What I don’t really know is whether God takes pleasure at dispensing selective generosity with regard to love and care. I see the sufferings of humanity, and I know that God is the ultimate and that He alone makes these things happen, the good and the bad things alike are possible because God willed their happenings in the first place.–.
Those who encounter good luck and blessings have serious reasons to thank God. But those who are deeply afflicted in a world where they know God could and should have done anything to reverse their sufferings if He so wished find themselves alienated from the God they believed to be the creator of mankind. They are forced by their situations to pursue the notion that they are victims of God’s selective wrath while those blessed in every circle of their lives bask in the selective generosity of God. This analogy among the afflicted, unfortunately, creates a recipe for the blame game against God for selectively banishing them into the abyss of painful afflictions for the rest of their lives.
There is no doubt that this picture of God in the face of human suffering as a ruthless condemner takes away from the heart of men, the generally held view that God is Love, and that He is the generous God who wants His children to sing with joy all their lives in the tight security of His unchanging and undying Love. When you find yourself far away from these expectations, you ask the legitimate question, why me oh God? Of all the people you have made, why do you pick on me to live my life with this complete sense of loss?
I know the scriptures would give answers to these questions with issues such as generational curses handed down upon us for the sins of our forefathers. Other possible explanations that could be given for our sufferings are our sinful natures that constantly attract the wrath of God with the resultant divine punishment. These explanations unfortunately, don’t help much to change sufferers’ view of God as the uncaring father who has all the means to make things blissful for His children but allows suffering to consume their will and spirit to the furthest point affliction.
It makes God lurk with a vicious dark side even when we know He is the light of the world. I read the story of Job whenever I feel the colic pangs of my afflictions in this truly difficult world. Job had every thing to live for-wealth, health, family and faith. He lost them all in a string of disasters that reduced him to a sick suffering man. He was a good example of a God forsaken man whose body was sore ridden and hurting so bad he even begged God to take his life. It makes me ask questions about the true nature of the God I believe in-is He this mean as to watch a man suffer his pain to the end when He God, Himself, has the power and authority to sooth these pains with a simple majestic command?
We have many Jobs of our time today who feel they are serving a truly Heartless God who watches with absolute indifference, the widespread suffering of His people. I want us to get into the heads of Sri Lankans now locked up in a worldly contest for political power characterized by the ongoing brutal war where women, children, the old and the youth are all being starved and shelled to death by evil men who are driven by their selfish desires at the expense of the common good for fellow men. Where is God in the midst of these horrendous suffering? Has the God I believe in gotten suddenly blind, deaf and unfeeling to these untold human suffering?
We read in the Bible that God fought battles side by side with the people of Israel against Babylonians, Philistines and Egyptians, yet we see the folded hands of God at a time like this when thousands of His children are being butchered by evil men in Sri-Lanka, what kind of God is our God? Has He changed from the Almighty and Loving God we first knew Him to be? I still believe that we are the Universal children of God and His love for us is neither adulterated nor lobe-sided, yet I still feel this question must be asked, Why has the extreme pain and suffering in Sri Lanka not caught the omnipresent eye of our God to this day? If God is asleep today, I want to pray that someone has got to wake Him up because His children in Sri Lanka are crying out to Him but he can neither hear, see nor feel their pains.
