Japanese catastrophe isnít Godís judgment
Itís heartbreaking to watch the devastation in Japan. It seems like every few months, some great natural disaster assaults our beautiful planet. I for one, however, will not look at the disaster in Japan and claim that it is a result of Godís judgment.
The Christian movement typically does this, as it did when Katrina slammed New Orleans and an earthquake ravaged Haiti. The Christian community is often questioned by unbelievers: If God is love, why does he allow these things? Since these disasters kill people, your God must be a God of hate and evil, if he exists at all.
To confront this viewpoint, we must look at the bigger picture. First, God always loves, but this is only part of his nature. Second, remember that Christians are also killed or wounded by these acts of violent nature. And third, a better question is this: Why has God chosen to let us live in a dangerous world?
To be sure, God has divine management rights over all he has created, but he has also set into place certain laws of nature that include the normal cycles of weather as well as the periodic shifting of the Earthís crust.
God allows it to rain on the just and unjust, but every time Mother Nature hiccups, it doesnít mean God is judging the evil. God has placed humanity in a dangerous world of accidents, weather-related disasters or cancers to awaken the mind of man to the reality of Godís existence. Godís divine finger pushed the button which created the universe and then to reveal more of himself sent Jesus Christ, his son to Earth. Christ is whom we need the most. Read the Bible to gain clearer understanding of Godís purpose for man and your own personal life.
Man must realize that he will not live forever and that life can be a very fragile thing.
ó Sid Stewart
Trinity