As I write this, we have just heard that the son of friends of ours has just died after many months of struggling for his life. I talked to another friend today and she was really missing her mom today. She died several months ago. And then she told me that another acquaintance had just found out that their 2-year-old daughter had leukemia. What discouraging news. And of course, the big question, why? Why do these things happen? How come we can’t do anything to find the cures for these problems? Illness and disease continue go devastate humanity without rhyme or reason and we are virtually helpless to do anything about them. Is there an answer for all of this?
Of course, one is that we live in a fallen world. All of this is a result of our desire to do wrong and it is the effect of our own choice. That’s not a bad thought. G-d’s desire for our life has kind of been side stepped because of what we wanted? His hand of protection is limited because of our choice to decide our destiny? The culmination of our circumstances is the result of the choices that we have made and now they are being worked out to its fruition? I don’t have an answer. All is speculation.
As I have thought on this today an interesting thought came to mind. What in the world was the nachash (serpent) doing in the garden? Wasn’t that the Garden that the L-RD planted to the east? Didn’t He take the man that He created and place him there? Wasn’t it good? How did the serpent get there? Wasn’t that the worst possible thing that could have ever happened to humanity?
We are not without understanding even though we don’t have answers. What we have is what Paul said, “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.” (1Th 4:13-14) We have hope and faith in our Creator that He is working out His plan and that it WILL come to pass. We still grieve. We still cry and miss those we love. We will hope and trust.
Let us weep with those who weep (Rom 12:15) and be a blessing. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2Co 1:3)
To my beloved friends: I weep with you. My heart breaks over your anguish and loss. May the peace of our beloved Father comfort you in this time and may you find rest in the shadow of His wings.
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