He Leadeth Me

Why has God allowed this evil to happen?” Why persecutions? If God must allow natural disasters, or even wars because of human failings, why can’t he at least allow his flock to be shepherded and comforted during such calamities? Surely he could defend and protect his flock instead of having it singled out for special attack such as this. The perplexity and pain grew within me as

God’s promise of a Redeemer, and the coming of Christ. I spoke of the example he set us of one perfect human life, in which every thought and action was dedicated to doing God’s will, the will of the Father, and so restoring again that perfect order that had originally been God’s plan for all mankind. I talked of how he had suffered every indignity a human being could suffer, from a humble birth, to poverty, to thirty years of the dullest and most routine life of work in a small and backward village, to rejection and suffering and pain and finally death, the end that faces every man. I spoke of his resurrection and victory over death—that central fact of all Christian belief that gives us absolute assurance of life beyond death, of life beyond this life, the assurance that there is a meaning to ma

Faith, then, is the fulcrum of our moral and spiritual balance. The problems of evil or of sin, of injustice, of sufferings, even of death, cannot upset the man of faith or shake his trust and confidence in God. His powerlessness to solve such problems will not be a cause of despair or despondency for him, no matter how strong his concern and anxiety may be for himself and for those around him. At the core of his being there exists an unshakable confidence that God will provide, in the mysterious ways of his own divine providence.