I often feel sorry for God.
You cannot imagine how difficult it must be to be God. You have to try to please everybody. And if something goes wrong, you are the first one to get the blame.
And then religious people often have the attitude that God owes them.
“I go to church, I live a good life and I give the church R100 every month. I am not like other people, I am a good person”. So when you lose your job, or your child develops an incurable illness, you become angry with God. You may stop going to church, keep your R100 a month gift and even stop praying.
We live in a broken world, and times are difficult. God is not responsible for the war in Syria, or the financial mismanagement in the USA. God does not pump our food full of poison, or pollute our seas and air. God does not promote violence or disease. Like you, I have millions of questions and very few answers. I don’t know why bad people prosper and good people suffer. I cannot explain why little children get cancer.
Like you, I hate cheap, religious answers. But like you, I have to ask God to help me, not to understand, but to hold his hand. Maybe all this trouble isn’t God’s doing at all.
