“… the days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the son of Man, but you will not see it.” – Luke 17:22
When the 9/11 tragedy happened, a lot of people asked, “Where was God?”
He seemed to have been absent for such a disaster to happen.
Similarly, many people ask the same question when personal tragedies happen to their lives. “Where is God when I am down?”
But maybe we should also ask, “Where was God in my life when I was up?” when everything was doing well and great with my family, my business, my career.
Couldn’t it be that, blinded by worldly success, we’ve stopped seeing God in our lives when He was supposedly so present blessing us generously and abundantly?
But when terrible, dreadful and heartbreaking events strike us we start looking for Him again, even blaming Him for such misfortune.
God would never abandon us, especially in moments that we need Him the most. But for us to see Him clearly in our tragic moments we should train ourselves to see Him in our joyous times.
In fact, we should be seeing Him every time and every moment so that never will there come a day in our lives that we could no longer see Him. -Alvin Barcelona
REFLECTION:
Do you see God clearly in both happy and sad moments of your life?
O God, never hide from me. But more correctly, never allow me to hide from You so that I could see You all the days of my life. Amen.
Bo Sanchez
5 comments:
Thanks for the add..Just finished reading your posts. will be back soon.
Nice post... we all need reminders.
We should be thankful for both the good and bad times. We don't know His perfect plans, but we know whatever He has for us is always the best for us. Amen
Very true, good or bad times one should never forget how blessed one is.
There is one quote I have in my quotation blog which applies to all." Don't tell God how big your storm is, tell the storm how big your God is".
You're right. God is with us all the time and we should take time everyday to acknowledge Him.
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