Where's God

It's so easy to ask this when we're going through difficult times in our lives.  I see many people who aren't believers yet ask, "If God is real, where is he?  How and why would he let all this horribly bad things happen?".  There isn't an easy way to fully explain it.  It's a layered answer that believers of all walks struggle with.  One the most basic level is it because he gave us free will so we could have authentic relationship with him.  Due to free will we make poor choices and so do others and all of this has natural consequences.  However, sometimes God does heal, delivers us from the consequences and or shields us from the world's evil.  It can be so difficult to understand because we are expecting to understand something that's beyond us.  We innately think we are so brilliant and that if we don't understand than it must not be true.

Then there's the other side of this.  When we seek shelter in him during these trials and tribulations he uses it for our good and his glory.  He can use this pain to teach us, mold us, grow us for a better tomorrow.  That's what we need to hold fast to.  His shelter, his guidance, his provision.

Romans 8:28  And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.