What’s Our Problem

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Let’s just face it: bad things happen to us. We are stricken with cancer; we go through messy divorces; we lose people to death; we succumb to bombs and bullets; we hurt, suffer, bleed, and cry. Many people blame God for tragedy, either in a positive way or a negative way. When my cousin died, people told my family that God was keeping her from bad things later in life or he needed another angel for his choir. It’s as if God’s a divine screen writer who has to let bad things happen to characters to advance the story. You’ve heard the platitudes, too. Other people blame God. They say, if God is all-powerful, then why didn’t he stop this from happening? The truth is in neither of these.

God isn’t behind these things: he’s not the author of brokenness. We live in a world polluted by our sin and the sins of others. We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way. We have fallen from the way the Creator intended. And what is the source of our problem: we are.

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