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When God Seems Gone

August 15th, 2010 by Dan

I just preached on the topic of when God seems gone. It is a deeply personal topic for me, since Sue and I have experienced a fair bit of loss and tragedy this summer. So many of my friends and church have asked; how are you doing? Really? We are doing very well. We have felt and seen the Lord working through all of these tragedies and brokenness, and we have seen glimmers of the triumph of grace that God is weaving into history. Most importantly, He has graciously opened our eyes to His tender love and care for us in deep ways that are hard to express and yet impossible to ignore. He is near, and we have known it in incontrovertible ways.

God has grown larger and more seemingly close to us as these tragedies have unveiled the reality of our vulnerability and need for him at all times. These trials have actually shone a light on real reality. Reality is that God is supreme; that His purposes cannot be stopped, and that His love is powerful enough to carry us through the fiercest storms. God’s sovereignty may occasionally be a troubling doctrine to some, but to those whose lives are tossed on the waves of a rough sea, it is the most comforting and beautiful truth.