Facebook spans a huge, heartbreaking, soulstretching, range of emotions. Tonight, I read posts from some friends about their babies, engagement, children’s birthdays, recipies, and funny videos. I also read posts from other friends about their chemotherapy, relationship breakup, death of a father, and about the bombings killing civilians in Aleppo and Cairo. Perhaps no other generation has had such a daily deluge of emotional range... how can one handle this (without becoming desensitized in one direction or the other)?
More importantly, where is God, and what is He doing? (if He exists, which I have reason to believe)
I came across these two powerful and helpful articles tonight:
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/why-do-we-envy-the-wicked - an examination of Psalm 73’s approach to the same wrenching questions we face today. Excerpt:
“The psalmist looks around and sees the faithless living opulent lives of comfort and blessing and long life. He looks around and sees that these same people are wicked oppressors of others. He thinks that they’re getting away with it. The simplicity of the psalmist’s challenge fuels our search for clarity and answers. Where is our sovereign, righteous God when the sex trafficker naps on his yacht?”
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