Something I wrote a week or two ago and have just polished up, mostly by getting the verses into order. I suppose it is a Psalm? Nothing on David's level though.
God of Contradictions
The God who made the earth the skies and sea
And allows us to trash them
The God who made man and woman in His own image
And allowed us to sin and break His heart
The God of beauty and perfection
Who allows ugliness and imperfection to reign
The God of justice, friend of the poor,
Who allows injustice and poverty to flourish
The God who is the prince of peace
And yet allows wars and rumours of wars
The God who sent His son
to save us in human form
And allowed us to beat and kill Him
The God who heals,
who makes the lame walk and the blind to see
And allows children to get sick and die
The God who is holy and perfect
And allows sinners to join Him at His table
The God of all joy
Who allows unimaginable sorrow
The God who collects our tears in a jar
And allows us to go on and on filling the jar
The God who hears our prayers
And so often allows silence to answer them
The God who rose again
And allows us to share in His hope
The God of contradictions
whom we so little understand
One day will you allow us to see as you see?
Will you seem so contradictory then?
The God who will soon return
And allows soon to feel like forever
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13.12
I rationalize the apparent contradictions by believing that, in order for free will to work, he has to allow bad things, whilst working for our good. If that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot be tested if we cannot be bad as well as good, so He has to step back and permit this.