Today's reading from the Chronological Reading Plan: Psalms 131, 138-139, 143-145 Many have heard about the devastating tornado that hit Moore, OK . When natural disasters like this happen, you always get the questions about "where is God?". When God does not immediately intervene in a way that we recognize, people begin to doubt His faithfulness and goodness. Remember, the Jews were in 400 years of slavery in Egypt. That meant many Hebrews were born, lived, and died as a slave without an apparent action or word from God. I wonder how many of them asked the the same question about where was God? But God did hear their cries . He sent a savior and mediator in the person of Moses. And whenever Israel was oppressed by their enemies, God would send saviors in the form of judges, like Sampson. But these "mini-saviors" were just shadows of a greater Savior . After 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments, God sent Jesus . ...
In the beginning was the Word ("logos"), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.