My one proof.....

In my last post, I wrote about how God speaks all around us through nature..and gives us hints about Himself.
Well, I can't help but also think about the ways that it can be impossible to see God.

When God takes away innocent children...how in one moment a family is happy and cheerful...in the next moment they learn that they will never see their daughter again due to vicious accident.
Where is God in that?
Or when rape occurs. Or when someone is gunned down for never a good reason.
We're flying along in peace and the next minute we're caught in a web, and in two seconds, it's our complete destruction.
Where is God in that?

The terrible examples of possibilities are endless. And I think to myself that I don't think I could be strong enough...if one of these examples happened in my life. What I mean is...I know I could believe in God, but I'd be extremely mad at Him...or even rebellious towards Him. How could a God of Your nature ALLOW THIS???
And He does allow it. It does happen.

The answer I'm given to these thoughts is not really an answer as to "why", but an answer as a question to make me think on a deeper level. It is the question, "Why is it that you feel that this is terribly wrong? Why does it make you extremely sad, mad, and felt like you've been wronged?"
And I think the fact that there is a wrong and a right...and how strongly we feel it..is proof that there is an Absolute. Even in movies, there is almost always, in every movie, an element of good overcoming evil. If there were no power of Good and power of evil, we would not feel it. A child dying or living would not make a difference to us. There IS an absolute. To me, it is my one, sure proof.

Yes...there's something terribly wrong with this world...and terribly wrong things happen... but isn't that what the Bible said all the way from the beginning??...That this is a fallen world?
I don't think my belief in God can be shaken near as easily as my feelings of Him can. He can make me mad, glad, sad, extremely happy, frustrated, loved beyond measure...I can know He's right here, or feel like He's far away.
The world is chaos...Here I am in it. We need our path lighted to guide us through.