Covenant Community Church, Greenwell Springs LA

Have you ever asked yourself, “Where is God, and why did He let this happen?” All of the atrocities that humankind has inflicted on nature and other humankind… and God remains silent. Consider the genocides one race has inflicted on other races, and consider one religion killing other religions in order to bring “truth.”

As I stood in the infamous guard tower at Aushwitz-Birkenau, looking over the acres of barracks and crematoriums that the Nazis built to murder millions of God’s chosen people, all I heard was silence.

“...all I heard was silence.”

I could not but ask the Supreme Being of the Universe, “Where were you when all of this took place? Were not these your people? The Jews chosen by you to bring forth the Christ? How could you have tolerated this? How can I believe and trust in such a God?”

At this point, my soul becomes a battlefield. How can I love this incomprehensible God?

Now I can rejoice that His Word and my fellowship with Him has taught me that whether or not God speaks, I as a mere mortal cannot fathom the eternal truths of God through my soulish realm. God is above the heavens and speaks from the realm of eternity; we are of the earth, blind and only understand the ways of the flesh and time.

Now that faith is established through Christ, and the Gospel has been manifested in grace, there is no reason for such questions of Him or expecting Him to answer. In giving us His Son, His only Word (for He possesses no other), He spoke everything to us at once in the sole Word – and He has not more to say. Hebrews 1:1-2, Colossians 2:3, Colossians 2-9.

“In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.” (Hebrews 1:1-2 NIV)

“…in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3 NIV)

“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form…” (Colossians 2:9 NIV)

So, I must not arraign the creator at the bar of my reason, to deny the wisdom and righteousness of His dealing just because I cannot fathom them.

Buoyed now by faith, I hear not silence, I just listen harder.