What Do You Do When the Unexplainable Happens?

What happened Thursday night in Colorado was horrific. It’s one of those events that you never even imagining happening until it does.

How could it have happened?
Why did it happen in Aurora Colorado rather than in your town?
Why did innocent people die?
Why were children involved?

Where was God in it all?

We’re left with those questions and a lot of ‘what do we do now’s.’ For the families of the victims, it will be years of wondering and thinking about that night.

What do we say about it?
For Christians, what do we tell people when something like this happens and they ask, “If God is good, how could he allow this to happen?”

Truthfully, we may never know.

We see throughout scripture that God allows events for different reasons…

at the end of the day, though, I can’t claim to know why God does what he does… or how He does it for that matter. I can’t say that God is necessarily punishing someone, trying to get someone’s attention, is ushering in the end of times, or anything else… it’s not my place either.

At the end of the day, though, I can say for sure…

God is still God. God is still Good. God is still Grace.

I have to make peace in that.

That’s easy for me to say while sitting in South Carolina and having no one close to me involved. I don’t know the pain in this particular loss…

But I do know a God that watched His Son die on a cross.
I do know a Savior that paid dearly for crimes he never committed.

I do know that God wants to show and prove His love through me as I walk the earth today.
I do know that what we as Christ followers say isn’t nearly as important as how we portray Him.

I do know that…

God is still God. God is still Good. God is still Grace.

How about you… What do you say in a situation like this? What do you do when the unexplainable happens? Tell us in the comments.