Thank you, Diamond. That passage is beautiful and gives all who love Him comfort.
Human beings are much more of a threat to one another than natural disasters are. People deliberately kill other human beings in far greater numbers than this tidal wave did.
While the images of lost victims and decimated villages are horrific and heartbreaking, it's worth wondering where all the photos and news coverage and lamenting theologian/poseurs were 10 years ago when over 800,000 men, women and children were hacked to death in Rwanda in 90 days. Did anyone ask where God was then? I don't recall this Druid (or the Druid who preceded him) offering any solace to the world after this genocide.
I remember reading on some FR thread a few years ago that "people just didn't know what was happening to Jews in Europe during WW-2." Or else had people known the extent of the slaughter, certainly someone somewhere would have acted sooner.
I accepted that until one night when I was watching "Casablanca" for the 20th time and I heard lines I'd apparently missed before. A young Jewish couple from Bulgaria are desperate to leave Morocco and begs Rick for the Letters of Transit to allow them safe passage to avoid "death in the concentration camps."
Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) has recently escaped from "a German concentration camp."
And even Bogart makes reference to the reality in Europe: "Now you've got to listen to me. Do you have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten we'd both wind up in a concentration camp."
"Casablanca" was written as a successful NY play in 1940, "Everybody Comes to Rick's." The movie was filmed in 1942 and released November, 1942. Anyone who saw the play or film knew the words "concentration camp" and just what went on there.
Human beings have a very selective memory, conditioned by eons of our baser instincts. For the fallen creature to deny God because His actions appear "heartless" is nonsensical. We out-kill God any time we want.
And apparently we want to all the time.
The only solace in the temporal world is Jesus Christ.
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." -- John 16:33
You wrote: "The only solace in the temporal world is Jesus Christ.
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." -- John 16:33"
Thanks for the lovely reminder. I love this verse and I simply must commit it to memory.
--Marty