Pain and the Silence of God

Where is God? When I hurt?

God whispers in our pleasure. 

Speaks in our conscience

Shouts in our pain!

Gentle Reader,

Where is God when we hurt? Why did God allow this to happen ? I'm a good person why would God do this to me? Down through the years all types of people have ask that question about their situation or others.

Remember the Kennedy Assassination?

or the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.?

 Or more recently the Bombing of the Twin towers on September 11th?

or perhaps a loved one dies an agonizing death or a lingering death?

Where is the Goodness of God? People ask!  

It's not that so much as it is the Silence of God that hurts!

If God would just show Himself and explain then I would still my cries and sobs of hurt and bitterness!

"Where was God in those days?" asked Pope Benedict XVI as he stood in Auschwitz last week. "Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil?" 

It is the inevitable question in Auschwitz, that vast factory of death where the Nazis tortured, starved, shot, and gassed to death as many as a million and a half innocent human beings, most of them Jews. "In a place like this, words fail," Benedict said. "In the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent?"

A SILENT Heaven! Yes, but it is not the silence of callous indifference or helpless weakness; it is the silence of a great sabbatic rest, the silence of a peace which is absolute and profound -a silence which is the public pledge and proof that the way is open for the guiltiest of mankind to draw near to God. When faith murmurs, and unbelief revolts, and men challenge the Supreme to break that silence and declare Himself, how little do they realize what the challenge means! It means the withdrawal of the amnesty; it means the end of the reign of grace; it means the closing of the day of mercy and the dawning of the day of wrath.

If God is silent now it is because Heaven has come down to earth, the climax of Divine revelation has been reached, there is no reserve of mercy yet to be unfolded. He has spoken His last word of love and grace, and when next He breaks the silence it will be to let loose the judgments which shall yet engulf a world that has rejected Christ For "our God shall come and shall not keep silence."'
A silent Heaven is a part of the mystery of God; but Holy Writ declares that a day is fixed in the Divine chronology when "the mystery of God shall be finished." And when that day breaks, the heavenly host shall again be heard, proclaiming that "The sovereignty of the world is become our Lord's and His Christ's, and He shall reign for ever and ever

It is GRACE (God's Riches At Christ's Expense) now Gentle Reader, But I am afraid that  it will not always be so.

It is time to make your peace with the God of The Word! the Bible. The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob  The God of Peter and Paul My God and yours. (acknowledge it now or later but acknowledge it you will.

 For those who might still doubt think on this .In the Koran it speaks of Jesus, Mary and God, but the Bible does not speak of Mohammad.

 If this seems harsh then understand that I don't want to pass into eternity not knowing that you will be safe. I love all of you,  Gentle Readers, just as you are warts and all.

Denis 

"A sea of tears for you Gentle Reader, a sea of tears from God to you"