Where Is God In The World Today?

Continuation from yesterday:

I mentioned yesterday the momentum that the coming election has gained in the news these last weeks.  Not at all my favorite time to watch the television.  Even the news is filled with unpaid campaign crap.  

And I get frustrated. To say the least — poor me.

This is when I am grateful for Rogu TV.  No political commercials.  

Some -- many I would guess -- have asked in the last three year, maybe more: “Where is God in our world today?”

To be honest I have slipped into that mode of wonder myself at times.  My question is not so much where is God, but what good can come out of the political mess  as I perceive it?

To be truthful, the mess flow much deeper than just politics.

Now remember I am a Traditionalist by birth.  I am also a total idealist too boot.  I am very clear that I want everyone to live as Jesus taught. Including me.

So it would seem that I am trapped in a box of non-imagination.  

I said ‘so it seems.’

The truth is, I can see way way back in history.  

I can remember nasty labor strike that tore, a small desert company, town apart with hate and anger.

I can remember seeing the huge mushroom cloud, from the first atomic bombs test, in the desert some hundreds of miles, from where I lived.

I have actually experienced an earthquake that shook the earth to destruction in a town not a hundred mile away.

I have seen Presidential candidates come and go and experienced the division they left in their quake.

I live through the Korean, Vietnam and Desert Storm; and watch the aftermath of those useless wars.

I watch on television the passion for justice and freedom as the Berlin Wall came down on that historical night in 1992.

I have experience a crushing divorce, after twenty-four year of marriage, that left me broken and, at one brief moment, suicidal.

I spent a week-end, in April 2002, filling the pulpit for a pastor who had been living with the aftermath of 9/11.  I listened to the stories.  I stood looking far into the hole of destruction.  Read the posters and message, from all around the world, on the fence around that little Episcopal church.

I have watch two congregations grief stricken, and divided, because a beloved pastor had use his power for sexual misconduct.

I have served as an ordained pastor since 1989 and watch, what was suppose to be people of love and grace, be mean and hateful instead.

You might say I have been around the block several times in my 77 years.

I am not patting myself on the back for all the life experience I have lived through — not at all. I just what you to hear my take on where God is, has been and always will be in our world today.

And what I have gratefully learn is that God is God no matter the circumstance.

God is active in our lives and in our world. No matter if we like what we see and experience of not.

God is the one solid, and sure, hope for this messed up and crazy world.  He brought order out of void and nothingness in the beginning.  And He still does today.

We are just not privy to all the circumstance involved.