Sunday, March 22, 2009
incomprehensible
I don't know. I've been having a really hard time lately with something. My question can be answered with a simple statement, but I really don't think it's as simple as some people make it. God has the big picture in mind. God has a greater plan. God has a purpose for everything, right? Then WHY (and I say this with extreme emotion) do people suffer the way they do. Please don't assume I'm talking about myself; I most definitely am not. But, honestly, I was brought to tears last night, once again, thinking about our society here in comparison to societies in third world countries. Of course, there obviously is valid, extreme, suffering, here in America as well, but what breaks me so often is the images i see from foreign, less established, countries. I don't understand what makes America function the way it does and, honestly, how our country has all of this money in the first place. Is it because we have big business to circulate money? Then, why can't we build businesses in foreign countries? Is it the government? I honestly have no clue. But why is it that so many people go hungry, shivering, and downtrodden from day to day?? It makes me so MAD!!! Simple-readers digest version-type answer: Adam slipped up, sin entered the world, now there is suffering. And of course, the ever popular supplement to this answer: God has a plan for everything. So, that justifies suffering? I mean, we have a just God, right? How can I believe He is just when there is obviously so much privilege in the world? And it frustrates me how I go to a Christian school that sings songs of suffering, when I really don't feel like I'm experiencing suffering. And, if i want to be able to communicate God's incredible omnipotence and omnipresence to someone who HAS experienced extreme suffering, how do i do that without ever experiencing the suffering that they have endured? I can try. And as I'm writing this, I feel like I'm answering my own question in this area - What if trying is not enough? Answer: Its not, on it own. With God, its enough. Okay, so I know this is a lot of random thoughts. Forgive me for any errors in punctuation and fragmentation. These are just a few of the things I've been grappling with lately.
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