Well, I haven't blogged in forever and basically that's due to 2 things. First, I got a real job, so now "The Man", as Dave Bednarski refers to it, has me working 40+ hour weeks. But don't let that skew you, I love my new job. Its truly is a blessing straight from God. And the 2nd reason is I just haven't had much to blog about. I could blog about my new-to-me KTM 300 2-stroke that totally rocks, but that would probably bore you.
So what has me blogging tonight is this book called "The Shack". It seems this is the "in" book to be reading if you're a Christian living in Colorado Springs, CO. Now I must say, I'm only 1/3 through the book (Pg 88 out of 245) and my comments could be way off base because I have yet to finish the book, so take what I say with a large grain of salt. But the book was totally rockin' all the way up until half-way through the 5th chapter. It was real. The main character, Mack, is finally coming to a spot where he was going to have to deal with God. Head on. It was totally 110% rockin' and then all of the sudden it got weird fairy-like. Oh, it was stinkin' horrible. It was like a fairy land twist on the Oracle in The Matrix. (You'd have to read it to understand) So now I don't even want to finish the book. But alas, I believe I'm speaking too soon and I need to finish the book before totally calling it out. But I must say, at this particular point in the book, I'm very, very disappointed.
So this brings me to think about what we do when we as Christians have something truly horrible happen to us and we can't help but ask God why He allowed this happen. What are the steps for restoring the relationship with God when we feel God is at fault for allowing such harm to occur? Is it okay to yell at God, to let Him know we're mad? Is it okay to tell Him that His lack of action in letting this great tragedy occur has deeply wounded us? Yes. God created us, so why would the great creator of the universe be unable to cope with our tough questions.
Psalm 51:17 states,
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise"
In times of my brokenness, God has heard my cry, He's been moved by my tears and He has yet to fail me in meeting me exactly where I'm at. Our God knows us and knows exactly what each one of us needs in that desperate hour of our lives. I was hoping The Shack was going to take us to that place. The place where God takes a man who's yelling and angry with God and meets him exactly where he is and restores him.
But it should be noted, the anger must turn to sorrow and total brokenness before God. Only then will God be able to restore you to full person He desires you to be.
Our God is faithful and true and He longingly desires to have relationship with you. We do serve an awesome and majestic God!!
Timmay.
