Where is GOD?!?!??!?

            I feel like this whole ‘God is Love’ conversation has left a lot of people depressed or even angry because in some situations it’s hard or even impossible to see that God loves. We live in a very broken world and in many cases there is no love to be found anywhere. This lack of love comes from an inward looking lifestyle where people care more about themselves then anything else. We all do this. We are all broken.

In that brokenness we often look to how things should be or how things are supposed to be. If only the world were how it’s supposed to be. If only there was no greed. If only there was no starvation, if only I was born to a richer family, if only I was 5 years older, the list of “if only “ goes on FOREVER. We have all these preconceived notions of what we think the world needs to be…Or how God needs to be.

            If we live in a broken world and God is love, then where is God? ? I can only imagine how many times that question arose during hurricane Katrina, The world trade center crashes, the malaria breakouts in Africa, the daily bombings in Iraq, the  day my dad lost his job, the time my mom walked out on us, when my boyfriend dumped me after after I had sex with him, when my brother committed suicide. The list goes on and on. Where is GOD? We ask this question quite often. But the answer is always the same.

Hebrews 13:5-6 “ I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Where is God?  

James 1:17 says that “every good and perfect gift comes from above, coming down from the father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

 Mother Theresa worked in what other people called “ a Godless place” she once said that God is in the darkest crevasses. So where is God? We expect God to be on this High and mighty throne, eating grapes and having angels fan him with there wings and massage his feet. And by all means, that’s where he belongs he should be up there. We should be praising him and Bowing down. But he’s in the slums, with the poor , in September of 2005 he was in the super dome crying with the Katrina victims who lost their house. On 9/11 he was running around the streets of new york whispering “it’s okay, I’m with you”. Every day he’s in the clinics in Africa giving strength and wisdom to the overworked doctors fixing the malaria problem, with every car bombing in Iraq God is crying out “it doesn’t have to be this way”. And right next to him is a person saying “where is GOD?!?!?!”. You see as much as Christ deserves to sit on a throne all day and be worshiped (keep in mind the omnipresence of God) he’s down in the slums loving on his favorite people.