I keep thinking about Beth. She was such a good person and she was doing nothing wrong.... Just driving down the road, minding her own business when everything is suddenly over. It's easy to feel hateful towards the man who drove into her. Yes, he was doing wrong and was having a "wrong" life, but this time, was he just an instrument used by God, to call one of His Chosen Ones home? A split second one way or the other and everything could have been so different. We'll never know. I guess that's a mysterious part of faith.
We really don't want to think that an act of God would hurt someone, but the Bible is full of it. People were hurt all the time; sometimes God dictated it, it wasn't just something accidental, but on purpose. The man who was blind his whole life so Jesus could heal him as an adult missed out on so much in his lifetime. It had to hurt in so many ways. How could anyone know that the situation would be used by God for His perfect purpose?
These are things I wonder about. I often think how, in the Bible, it says "Mary pondered it in her heart." I don't know; I'm not that quiet. I want to know, I want to understand. When I can't, my faith kicks in and reminds me that worrying about this or that changes nothing. That we just live each day as if it could be our last and thank God when we see another sunrise or sunset.
Those hurting today are Beth's loved ones. Please pray for them while their lives are in turmoil. We go through our days thinking, Thank God it's not us; but while we move comfortably they suffer. Keep praying. It's the best we can do.
