Where was God?

You hear it all the time. Where was God during the Holocaust? Where was God when the Tsunami hit? Where was God when the planes his the Twin Towers? Where was God? Where was God? Where was God?!


People seemingly get angry. Non-believers get angry! What's that about? Surely if they read the scripture they would see that the Earth was given to mankind. We're the ones who have messed it up. 


Look at Psalm 115:16: 


The heaven of heavens is for God , but he put us in charge of the earth.


Us! He put us in charge. He's in heaven, the afterlife, the new world. He didn't say he'd stick around and sort out our messes. Our messes have already been forgiven, wiped up, that happened when Jesus was sacrificed for us on that cross.


We have been allowed freedom. God could have kept us all on a string, dancing to his tune, like puppets. He could have moved our mouths and made us sing when all we wanted to do was sleep, but didn't. God's given us freedom and handed us this planet.


Where was God? He was right there. If you believe in him, he takes away your fear. He says that it will be OK, he is with you. With great loss on this Earth, the finger is often pointed to the big man in the sky. But amongst the grief, even amongst the anger on this Earth, our Earth - He is there and is welcoming those people into his world.