Last week Typhoon Haiyan devastated the city of Tacloban and other cities in Philippines. Probably 4,000 people were dead, 10 million displaced. Churches were destroyed and the poor, mainly Catholics, local communities suffered untold miseries.
But God is still there. He just allowed nature to exercise its fury and destruction. God did not stop His believers from natures harm.
Yes, God ALWAYS allow natural disasters to lash His people nowadays.
But in the past, God did intervene to help His people. He even split the 'Red Sea' to allow His people to cross when they were pursued by the Egyptians. Didn't God told Abraham that He would spare the city of Sodom from natural disaster if He could find 10 men who were righteous? Gen 18:16-33. Could there be less than 10 godly men in the city of Tacloban last week? And hence God allowed the Typhoon to whip the land?
In reality, in this Dispensation of Grace, Jesus already taught that our "Heavenly Father causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." Matt 5:45.
We don't know why. We don't need to know how -- how all the pain inflicted, 'work together for good'. We may ask Apostle Paul, who wrote this in Romans 8:28, when we meet him. But in the meantime, we simply need faith - that God is God.
Praise the Lord.
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