Other Stories

I think sometimes we judge God too harshly without having all of the facts. Much of the time, it could be that we are attributing things to Him that He had nothing to do with, or we are only seeing the end result of a situation that was based on horrible decisions made many, many years ago. Think of it like this: If we read one book we might decide that a character in the story had a pretty rough time of it, and that he was misunderstood and was being treated unfairly. Surely those persecuting him are villains. It could be that we are correct GIVEN everything we know from that one story. But suppose there were thousands of other books written about that character before the one we read? So much missing information, so many wrong turns, so many things we have no idea about. If only we knew of all of these things we would see why the things were happening the way they were. We might even come to the conclusion that the man brought the troubles upon himself. The point is, we know so very little about the back story. I suspect this is why so many times we MUST just have faith. We are given the soft “no”- “not now . . . you do not understand”. There are a million and one stories behind the things we are questioning, and one day He will turn us loose into the library to read them. And then, finally, completely, righteously, we shall all understand.