The past 4 weeks I have given my thoughts and reasons on "Why Christians Suffer". This past week one of my daily devotionals had an article by Arthur Christopher Bacon, which to me seemed to sum up everything I have been trying to say. The verse that is given is Matthew 6:32, "Your heavenly Father knoweth." (This was written over 100 years ago, so some of the words used may not be considered 'politically correct' today, but was written in love.)
"A visitor at a school for the deaf and dumb was writing questions on the blackboard for the children. By and by he wrote this sentence: "Why has God made me to hear and speak, and made you deaf and dumb?"
The awful sentence fell upon the little ones like a fierce blow in the face They sat palsied before that dreadful "Why?" And then a little girl arose.
Her lip was trembling. Her eyes were swimming with tears. Straight to the board she walked, and, picking up the crayon, wrote with firm hand these precious words: "Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight" (Matthew 11:26). What a reply! It reaches up and lays hold of an eternal truth upon which the maturest believer as well as the youngest child of God may alike securely rest--the truth that God is your Father.
Do you mean that? Do you really and fully believe that? When you do, then your dove of faith will no longer wander in weary unrest, but will settle down forever in its eternal resting place of peace. "Your Father!"
I can still believe that a day comes for all of us, however far off it may be, when we shall understand; when these tragedies that now blacken and darken the very air of heaven for us, will sink into their places in a scheme so august, so magnificent, so joyful, that we shall laugh for wonder and delight."
1. Article by Arthur Christopher Bacon
2. From the heart of CC
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