Where Are You?

Ps Robert Fergusson preached last Sunday about being in search of Jesus, and said something I thought was quite profound:

"We have no right to complain about the absence of God, because we are a great deal more absent than He ever is."

Often when something bad happens, either to us or to someone we love, our tendency is to question where God is and why He isn't doing something to fix it.


Sometimes, I've found myself so consumed by the weight or the thought of a problem that it's hard to see anything but the problem, let alone something often 'invisible' like God working on the problem. I've been distracted, and hence absent to His presence.

Even when something bad isn't happening, I've been busy with too many things and tasks that I didn't answer His knock on my door. No excuse to be had there.

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:9

I pray for all of us that in both good times and bad, we remember God doesn't always work and think the way we expect or the way we do. He is not absent from us, but perhaps..hiding for a little while. As Ps Robert put it, it's a bit like hide and seek - He wants us to seek Him. And I guess if He's not hiding, it can make us quite forgetful to do the seeking part.

I don't know why bad things happen to good people. I don't know why we are sometimes made to endure suffering and trials and pain. I don't know why He hides sometimes.

But He promises to not forsake us. Ever.

All I know is that You are good.


K