"In the middle of life's devastations," wrote Dr. Glenn Mollette recently, "we often look to God and ask why. If he is really so great, so good, and so loving then why would he send or allow eight or nine inches of rain to fall on the hollers of eastern Kentucky and sweep away little children? Did he go to sleep? Is he detached from what happens in the world? Is he really out there? Yet, as many grieve, they will fall upon God as he is all they have left to get them through. An old saint of God who suffered through the storms of life once said, 'I didn't realize God was all I needed until God was all I had.'"
"Our God is in sovereign control of all the events of this earth," wrote Charles R. Swindoll in 2002.
"Then how can I explain why bad things happen? How can I resolve the ringing question, 'Why, God?'
"I did not say our Father has explained Himself. . . . I said our Father has planned or permitted the events of this earth. He has no obligation to explain Himself. The Creator does not explain why to the created. It would be like a brilliant potter explaining himself to a mass of soft clay."
Then Job answered the LORD and said,
"I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted."
New American Standard Bible: Job 42:1
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