It's sometimes amusing to see the search words that bring folks to salguod.net. Not today. In my Google Analytics report this week, on the last page of six, the last entry of 50, I discovered that one person came here by searching for this:
did god take my child because i could not give up my cd collection
I normally glance over this list, but that last entry stopped me in my tracks. Maybe it was a whim, but my site (the June 2004 archive page) is somewhere down around 25 on the Google list. That's 3 pages in. That's long way to go for a whim.
There's no way for me to know who that was or why they went searching. I don't know if they will find their way back here or not and I certainly won't presume to answer for God. I'll just ask, if you do come back here again, please, go read the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and watch Jesus. Watch Jesus raise Jairus' daughter from the dead. Watch him heal the demon possessed boy. Watch him stop a woman's bleeding and with it, remove her shame. Watch him weep with the family over Lazarus' death. And then watch him raise him again. Watch him heal on the Sabbath, knowing it will anger those in charge. Watch him rebuke the leaders for their lack of compassion. Watch him heal the forgotten, the outcast and the unclean, restoring not only their health but their place in society. This is God at work, directly, in the lives of flawed men and women. This is who God is.
God showed up here with us in Jesus to demonstrate his love for us, not only on the cross, but in three years of ministry. A ministry full of compassion, healing and restoration.
I can't begin to imagine the heartache behind a question like that, but God can. Seek him and don't give up until you've found him. I can't promise that you'll find the answer to your question, but God promised you that you will find Him, if you'll seek. I hope that in finding Him, you at least have the comfort that there's love behind whatever the answer is.
Wow. satan really messes with our minds some time. Stuff like this makes me think about a friend who fell away from God because he thought God wouldn't want him to get the deal he got on his used car. Just like this satan just trying to guilt this person out in a tough situation to try and get him mad at God. I can understand though. If I lost one of my kids it'd be hard to fight out guilt and anger and loss.
May God always bless the shot in the dark that's aimed at the weapons of Satan.
And bless the shooter, too.