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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Why is Everything Dying and Broken?


I've been reading the news a lot lately...and have felt a deep sadness for the condition of the World.  The Syrian refugee crisis, their civil and religious war(s), shootings, murders, rape, violence, rebellion, and the list goes on and on.  Just read the news and you will very quickly get a dose of the brokenness of humanity.

Here's a great song to sit and reflect on that question...  God, why?

Where Were You Lyrics (Ghost Ship)

I said God I do not understand this world 
everything is dying and broken 
why do I see nothing but suffering 


God I'm asking could this be Your plan
Sin has taken hold of this whole land
Will You not say anything else to me?

He said where were you the day that I measured
sunk the banks and stretched the line over 
all the earth and carved out its corner stone?

Where were you the day that I spoke and 
told the sun to split the night open
caused the morning dark with its light to show

Who shut in the ocean with stone doors
marked the reach of tides on those new shores
hung the day the waves rose and first broke forth

Have you seen the springs of that great sea
walked the caverns carved in the black deep
through the gates of darkness there on its floor

Have you seen the armoury i hold
snow and hail are stacked up in silos
for the times of trouble and war and strife

Can you raise your voice to the storm cloud
would the thunder answer and ring out
does the lightning ask you where it should strike

Who has cleft the channels for torrents
rain to sprout the desert with forest
in the wilderness that my hand has built

Can you hunt the prey for your lions
can you use the cords of orion
is this whole world bending beneath your will?

I spoke of things I did not understand
things too wonderful for me
although I had no right to ask
my God knelt and answered me

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