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Just\nyesterday, I was listening to a sermon, preached by a faithful, thoughtful\nfellow Christian whom I admire very much. She began the sermon with a moving\nstory about a woman who decided to sleep in and go to work late at her tall office\ncomplex in Manhattan.\nWhen she awoke at 11 a.m.,\nshe discovered that all her colleagues\nat her WorldTradeCenter\noffice were dead. It was Sept.\n 11, 2001. So far, so good.
Then\nthe preacher talked about how this woman had used this opportunity to change\nher life, to do what she was really passionate about and to make a difference\nin the world. Still okay. But embedded in the story came the unsettling\nstatement, made by the preacher, to this woman in the aftermath: “God saved you\nbecause God still had things for you to do.”
No\ndoubt, this assertion had a motivating influence on its subject, spurring her\non to examine her own life and to seek to serve her fellow men and women in a\nnew line of work and ministry. But did God choose to make this woman sleep in –\nbecause God had “things” for her to do – while also choosing\nto end the lives of 3,000 others?
Try\nexplaining that to the families of the 3,000 people lost on that fateful day!\nDid God not have things\nfor the other people to do – those who died on 9/11? Did God not want the best\nfor them too?
Sometimes\nwe say things about God that at first seem to cast God in a good light, but\nthen on closer inspection,\nactually say something we would not mean if we thought about them. We often say\nthem in\nan effort to comfort people, when we don’t know what else to say – when someone\nis suffering a terrible illness, has lost a job, or when a loved one has died.\nWe are trying to say something comforting, and trying to assert that God really\ndoes have a plan, and that this somehow fits into God’s overall plan. It’s an understandable\neffort to push back the reality that life is sometimes, often times, chaotic,\nfrightening, and unpredictable. We want to assert that life is not random or\npurposeless. And so we insist that the terrible thing that has befallen us is\nin fact all part of God’s plan. It’s our way of dealing with the famous\nquestion, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
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