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Passages by 
Glen Schmucker, Pastor

 
 How We Will Answer

On Sunday, December 26, as I was preaching about how God had come to make his home with us in this sometimes brutal and unforgiving world, 155,000 people were being swept away in one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.  I was trying to make the point that Christ’s coming was one answer to the question about we can reconcile our faith in all-loving God with inexplicable human suffering.  Though I still believe what I said, my words seem so small compared to what was happening around the world even as I spoke them.

 

This past week, on CNN’s Larry King Live, ministers from many different faiths were asked about that very issue.  How can we justify faith in a loving God with such unfathomable human suffering?  Did God cause it?  If nothing else, why did he allow it?

 

Interestingly, not even one of those ministers tried to defend God.  To a person they concluded that it is not ours to question God.  When such suffering visits itself on mankind, the question for us should not be, “Where is God?” but “Where is our humanity?”  That is a question we can answer in very tangible, practical ways.

 

 
 Please allow me to encourage you to make some kind of donation to a worthy charity.  If you are not sure of where, you can make your designated gift for victims of the tsunami payable to Cliff Temple and it will be sent on to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

We should not allow the enormity of this event to make us feel that our gift is of no value.  Again, it’s not a question of where God is right now, but where we will invest our humanity.  Some very lonely, desperate people are counting on how we will answer that question.


 
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