Through My
Eyes
A Survivor
Looks at the Word of God
Jehovah el Roi:
(The God Who Sees)
A near miss...an arrow prayer of thanks sent
up to heaven...and then my concepts of God were to be forever changed.
I was going through an intersection when a car coming from the opposite
direction failed to stop and tried making a left-hand turn right in front of
me. Somehow, our cars missed each other by mere inches.
I immediately thanked God for sparing me, but then my mind flashed back to
the night before. I was in a support group. I had just entered therapy, and
this group, a few weeks before. One of the ladies was talking about a little
girl who had been abused by her father.
As this woman prayed for the little girl, somehow the mention of Jesus being
there in the room with her, as she was abused, came up. My mind pictured this
little girl and Jesus standing there watching, doing nothing. Then my mind
raced back to the churches I went to a a child. I heard again a testimony by a
lady thanking the Lord for answering her prayer for a parking spot close to the
office she was going to. I asked, "God, did you protect me from an
accident, or did we just react quick enough and you had nothing to do with
it?"
Then, from somewhere deep inside came the anguished cry, a cry that I didn't
even realize was there, yet had all the intensity of deep buried pain,
"God, how could you? How could you answer an insignificant prayer for a
parking spot and yet watch a little girl being abused and not do something. You
are all powerful. You spoke and the world came into existence. You hung the
stars and the moon and the sun in place. You took the dust of the earth and
made man and breathed life into his body. You can do anything. Yet you didn't
rescue that little girl from horrible abuse from her father. How could you
watch and not do something. If I had been there, I would have rescued her.
Why?!?"
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