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• 1 have2believe // Feb 25, 2009 at 3:45 am

  I have been a doubter since I was 3. It was at that age that I was molested by someone in our church. As a young child I remember crying and asking God a simple question, “Why?” In a still and quite voice he answered my question. I heard him say to me, “I am crying too.” There are have been many times in my life that I have had to hold on to the fact that God is not pleased with the state of this world. We live in a horrible place. I once had a pastor say that this earth is the “closest to hell we will ever be.” Of course I have doubt when I see the suffering of humanity and I wonder “WHY?” but I know that God is crying too! His love is so intense that He cared enough to come to earth and walk with us and he even suffered humiliation and torture and asked “Why” before he went to the cross for us. But He knew he had to die or we would all face eternal punishment. You ask how a “loving God” could send someone to hell? I ask,” how could he not eventually punish people for all of the sin that they have done?” God has given us an incredible gift of “free will.” With that comes the opportunity to hurt each other intensely or we can choose to love. Since God is Love, I have no other option but to believe. Do I doubt what God is doing sometimes? Yes. But I do not need to understand everything about Him. His ways are bigger than my ways. He knows more than I do. I am not at all surprised that Mother Teresa questioned God at times. She saw some of the same suffering and pain that you have unfortunately had to witness, however, her response was to believe in spite of that. I think that is the true test of Faith.

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