How To Deal With Evil, Part 1

How can you prevent tragedy (whether manmade, natural or demon led) from forever shipwecking your faith?

It takes more than the simple declarative sentence:

• My feelings will not dictate my thoughtfully chosen actions.
• God has a reason for letting this happen, so suck it up.
• Good will come out of this situation-wait for it.
• Faith is enough to counteract my feelings of despair.
• Put your myth here.

Focus on the Who rather than the what.

The Who is God. And while focusing on God won’t (necessarily)give me any answers, it does give me peace and confidence that He has answers and IS working out a plan I cannot understand now.

A book that helped me was Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey. I wrote the following in this post about this topic.

“I don’t really know why this book touched me in a way other things hadn’t. I don’t remember getting any answers about why God doesn’t always use His power to protect innocent children.”

“I didn’t experience anything dramatic…see any burning bushes…converse with an angel…feel the touch of God’s finger.”

“But I do remember seeing more clearly, than I had in a long time, just who God is.”

And that was a sufficient answer, finally after all those tears and years of searching for peace.

How have you prevented tragedy from forever shipwecking your faith?