What is God saying? - Psalm 27:8
Wouldn’t it be great if you could hear what God is saying at a time like this? There are lots of different opinions on this. Some Christians look at the crisis and conclude that God is saying “Time’s up. You’re all too bad and this is the end”. Some atheists are saying “God is silent as always. This is the proof He does not exist”. Whenever bad things happen in the world there are also people who conclude quite instinctively that God is an angry sadist who shouts: “You thought North Korea was bad - let me show you what I can do!” Remember that, for David, nothing was going right. He was in exile, isolated in the desert. His enemies were trying to kill him. He had to worry about where to sleep, what to eat, and how to find water. He was missing his family and friends, the comfort of home, and the normal routines he used to take for granted. But he did not conclude that God was out to destroy him. He did not conclude that God had abandoned him completely. It might have felt like ...