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Speaking with a brother today about tragedy. The common question is always "Where is God in all this?" or "How can God exist in a world where suffering exists?" There are many answers to this common question. Not answering those questions here, but wanted to explore how we search for God in places that hurt us.

IKings19:9-14 is one of my fave stories in the Word, especially v11-12. What I noted today is that although the Lord was found in the gentle breeze, He could very well have been found in the gust, quake, or fire. It was not that He couldn't be found in the more destructive expressions; it was that He chose the gentler one with Elijah. But it indicates that He could very well have been found in the forces that destroyed.

Finding the Lord in the more recent tragedy is not something that can't be reconciled. We can not understand the reasoning why during those times He chooses the gust, quake, or fire. But if we accept the Lord in the breeze, we must also accept Him in the quake. And the thing to remember in both is that the love and the grace and the mercy don't exist in only one of those forms, but in all.