What Is God Doing?

"Why, O Jehovah, do you keep standing afar off? Why do you keep yourself hid in times of distress?" - PSALM 10:1. 

A mere glance  at news headlines confirms that we live in "times of distress." And when tragedy hits home-when we personally are affected by crime, a serious accident, or the death of a loved one-we might well ask, Does God see? Does he care? Is he even there?

 However, have you considered the possibility that our expectations of God could be based on a faulty premise? To illustrate: Imagine a small child who is upset because his father has gone to work. The child misses his father and wishes he would come home. The child feels abandoned. Throughout that day, he repeatedly asks, "Where is Daddy?"

We can readily detect the flaw in that child's thinking. After all at that very moment, his father is working to provide  for the entire family.  Could our thinking be similarly  flawed when we cry out, "Where is God"? 

Next time: What Is God Doing? Continued

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