Everytime I go to church,
I hear about
the wonderful things
God have done
for people.
From helping kids pass
their examinations,
to helping parents get
a promotion at work,
to healing the sick,
to narrowly escaping
a road accident.
God is great,
we proclaim.
And the pastor,
will back up,
how God is great,
with references
from the Bible.
So we believe in God
who performs miracles
and help us
when we are in need.
A God
who is involved
in our lives.
Then, how did God
allow his Korean church followers
to be murdered
in Afghanistan?
How did God
allow natural diasasters
like the Sumatran tsunami
to kill 275,000 lives
on Boxing Day 2004?
How did God
allow a deadly disease
like SARS
to kill so many people,
including a pastor
who contacted SARS
because he prayed
for a victim?
Do we know
the answer?
Take out your Bible references
and tell that to
the families
of the tsunami victims
or the SARS victims.
Did God allow,
the tsunami to kill,
because Indonesians
are Muslims,
because Thais
are Buddhists,
and Indians
are Hindus?
Are we worshipping a God
who blesses some people
and kills others?
Didn't the Bible teach,
that we are all
children of God?
And that we are
creations of God?
Do we believe
that God helps
a Christian boy
to pass his exams,
whilst killing 275,000 people
who are not Christians?
Some of the victims
were Christians
incidentally.
Is God really
a God of Love
and not a mass
murderer?
Is it the same God that taught us,
to love our enemies?
Or worse,
totally powerless
from stopping
big natural diasasters,
but could do small things
like helping a kid
pass his exams?
My point is
it is pointless
trying to understand God.
What is the use
of having faith,
if we need to rationalise
that God has done this
and done that
for us?
How can we worship God
as omnipotent,
and yet think
we can understand him
with our human understandings?
Why tell me
what you know about God
every single sunday,
when the reality is
nobody actually knows?
I choose to believe,
that God resides,
in each of us.
And acceptance of Christ
is the conscious allowance
of God manifesting himself
in our daily lives.
It is the personal relationship
we have
with God
and his goodness
that is in us.
We are all
children of God,
we are his creations.
Therefore, we are perfect
and should accept each other
as perfect creations
of God.
It is in each and eveyone
of us,
to let that perfection
be seen
and connect with
the perfection
of others.
It is our responsibilities
to let the God in us,
connect with
the God in others
we meet
in our daily lives.
To try to explain God
in human terms,
albeit with Bible references,
seems to me,
trying to put God down,
to our human levels,
and probably
a sin by
itself.
