Where was God when the earthquake shook Nepal?

Dear Tm:

Thank you for your prompt reply to my email.

You have asked a very good question"Where was God when the earthquake shook Nepal? " In fact, every time there is a big earthquake, tsunami or natural calamities that happened somewhere in our Globe, I was trembling to be challenged and be asked "Where was your Almighty loving God? "

The only best answer I can think of in this side of Heaven is "God was at the same place where He sacrificed His Son for us--to redeem mankind, to forgive all our sins and give us eternal life". (God certainly knows deeply about the pain of losing loved ones as He Himself sacrificed His only Son, Jesus Christ for us.) If this greatest self-denying sacrifice of God Himself doesn't demonstrate His most unthinkable, amazing love for His unworthy creatures, human beings,( very insignificant creatures compared to the whole gigantic universe as your brother likes to point out to me all the times) then I don't know what is the definition of a Loving God.

Nevertheless, I don't blame you to raise this question because as a human being, we are all struggling and wrestling to understand the natural catastrophes and human tragedies, wars on this earth. I googled your question and see if someone has any good article to share with us, then I found a lady who underwent losing her loving husband, who wrote in her blog to share something worthy for us to think about.

I am pasting a few paragraphs from her blog for you below.

 (p.s.  Please notice that God the Father did walk away from the cross for a very brief moment...as God the Father couldn't bear the crucifixion of God the Son, Jesus our Lord. That was the only time in eternity that Trinity God has ever separated in a very brief moment but that was the most dreadful agony of separation Jesus was heading to in His earthly life. Jesus cried out on the cross to God the Father," Father, Father, why have You forsaken me!"  I hope Jesus' agonizing cry out still echoes and touches our hearts even that occurred more than 2000 yrs ago. And we do need to stretch our horizon beyond this earthly life to see the eternal life God has provided for us, if only we turn back to God and  say yes to Jesus' offer of eternal life..)

...So where was this good God when the earthquake shook Nepal? If you believe in his omnipresence, he was there. And if you believe in his sovereignty, he knew it would happen. And then you wonder why this all-powerful God didn't stop the destruction. A fair question, this once wandering rogue is unqualified to answer.

One thing I do know is that maybe we are asking the wrong questions and coming to the wrong conclusions because we fail to take into account the actual state of things. This day in 2015 is not much different than it was the day Adam challenged God and bit the apple. Separation from God is separation from God. We, the descendants of Adam, are fallen people living on a fallen planet. Even still, when the Earth trembles, we find it easier to shake our fists at God than accept that this is the natural order of things.

And many of us confuse the definition of "bad" when tragedy hits our lives. After my former husband was killed, I quickly came to understand how a loved one's absence has a unique way of sucking all the air out of your soul. And then it moves on to steal your hopes and dreams. For this one who refuses to take "no" for an answer, the inability to negotiate with the unseen God a better outcome than succumbing to widowhood was more than I could bear. My husband used to say, "God is good all the time" -- and then I watched him die and had to decide for myself if he really is.

I wish I could tell you my faith did not waver when everything I believed (incorrectly) about God was shaken to the core. Amidst it all and through the questions, God showed up. On the day he died two trash collectors stopped at the scene of our head-on collision with a semi-truck to pray for us in the torrential rain. And later on, he showed up by way of family and friends who came to my side to help and encourage me forward. In the same way, God showed up when the earthquake hit Nepal through volunteers and donations to organizations like Reverend Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse.

Truth is, tragedies like this should serve to remind us how precious this life really is and help us accept our own mortality. Accept it or not, death is a reality for each of us that can come in the blink of an eye or a shake from the earth, arriving when we least expect it and always too soon. Be encouraged, the brief time we spend here is not all there is to living. There is a hereafter, so it would be wise to figure out where you are headed, here after.

God understands our hurts…feels our pain…empathizes with us in our grief and listens to our cries – because He knows what it feels like see a loved one die. I believe he cries along with us, helping us inhale and exhale as we wait for history to complete the last pages of the story. Someday, we'll look back at this brief moment in time we call life…and exceptionally bad days like April 25 will make better sense.

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