That Friday night in Paris was for many the end of a busy week and a time to relax.
A soccer game, a live band or just sitting at a sidewalk café enjoying French food.
Then without warning, all hell breaks loose and a few hours later when the dust has settled, about 130 people are dead and hundreds of others wounded. South Africans know their pain.
We understand violence because of our past and our present.
People ask me, where was God on Friday night, or the other times when things go so very wrong. Is he dead or just not interested? Maybe the pop song is right, “God is watching us, from a distance”.
The sad part of the story is that some of those who died believed in God, while we are told that those who took part in the attack claim that they did it in God’s name. I ask you with tears in my eyes, what type of God do you pray to?
1 Cor 13:13 says, “And now these three remain, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is LOVE.”
