We might ask and Texas is certainly is asking, why is life in our world so very fragile? How can a good God or any God be so seemingly sadistic? There are no safe spaces. The Guadalupe River swells 29 feet above normal levels in just 45 minutes, on a holiday and at midnight of July 4. If God had control of any of these circumstances, why did he or she allow the waters to rage? Can a seemingly apparent remote uncaring God be called good? Is not this God’s very existence called into question? Maybe, as some have supposed, there is no God?
The
television networks are interviewing religious leaders of every flavor and
asking this question. The consensus from every quarter is that there is no
answer, all we can do is nurse the fallout. Every time religion comes up short
it becomes a so called “mystery”. There is a lot of mystery going around. If we
remain as children stuck in the God is all powerful tree, there will be no sensible
answers. God did not put this world into motion to display his powers or his authority.
Maybe God
wants his people to think up to there potential. If we remain as children,
accepting the “whatever” of others, we will remain as children. Thinking is not
about education, it is about coming to understand the obvious and then making
adjustments. Common sense thinking is available to all of us.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
