Often time’s people ask the question of “Why does an all knowing, all loving God allow evil”? On my encounter to find an answer to this question, I ended finding more questions. Eventually, I could not find an answer to the question but I knew that in my deepest pain and suffering, God was right there with me.
I remember Ravi Zacharias telling a story of “a man who had a horse. One day, the horse ran away and his neighbor came in and said ‘isn’t it bad luck that your horse ran away’ and he answered ‘what do I know about these things.’ Some time later the horse came back with twenty more horses. The neighbor came in and said ‘good luck isn’t it, that your horse came back with more horses’ and the man answered ‘what do I know about these things.’ One bright morning the man’s son went to tame one of the wild horses and it kicked the boy and the boy broke his leg and the neighbor said ‘bad luck isn’t it that your son broke his leg’ and the man said ’what do I know about these things.’ A month later, a group of gangs came in looking for young able bodies to join their cause but the leg of the man’s son was broken so he wasn’t taken. The neighbor said ‘good luck isn’t it that your son broke his leg’ and the man said ’what do I know about these things.’" Now if you noticed the story carefully, you will realize that the man saw the bright things of life.
There is no better week than to do terribly bad on an assignment, hike the Cheaha mountains (highest point in Alabama) with your research counterpart for over 15 hours within 2 days and not find what you are looking for, get rejected by a girl, have your car break down and get stuck on campus while your friends go home for the break and still be more thankful than ever been. Over the cause of the last few months, I have learned to be thankful because I know no matter what is going on in my life, I have my maker right next to me who has promised never to leave me or to forsake me. See, a thousand will fall to my left, ten thousand to my right but it shall come nigh near me because I put in trust in Christ. In all this, there is no greater joy than to know that nothing can separate me from the love of Christ.
