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Today is the funeral for Steve Delgado, a great friend, someone one loved life more then most people ever could. And in times likes these I am left with the question why? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why are there hurricanes and Tsunamis that kill hundreds of people? Why did God take Steve? I would love to tell you that I know the answer, that I know why God took Steve, that I could point to something, a reason for his being take, but I can’t. Two weeks ago we went through the book of Job, Job was a Godly man, in fact the Bible says he was upright and righteous, and God allows the devil to bring horrible calamity down on his head. And Job is indignant, he appeals to God, he wants to talk to God to appeal his case because he is sure that God has made a mistake. He was righteous! He doesn’t deserve this! There are 39 chapters of Job and his friends discourse, his friends trying to get him to confess for something he has done wrong, and Job maintaining his innocence, and finally his friends get frustrated with his self-righteousness and leave him, and Job is left alone in his misery with no questions answered and his friends all deserting him. It was then that God came to him, spoke to him out of a storm and “put him in his place” if you will. God asks Job questions that he would never be able to answer, questions that Job never even could have pondered, and at the end Job is in awe at the power and majesty of God, and repents, it doesn’t say what Job repents for, because we know he didn’t sin. And the text maintains that in all this he did not sin against God. I like to think that he repented for his limited view of God, that he only saw God from his perspective and didn’t take in God’s. The book closes with Job getting double of what he had before, but you know what? His questions where never answered, he was never told why he was persecuted so harshly, but he praised God! I think of a toddler and their parents, toddlers all the time asking the question why. Why can’t I do that? Why is the sky blue? Why are we doing this? Until it ends with that trump all reply, “Because I said so.” God is God above and we are man below, I don’t know why God took Steve, but I know that he is in control, and since all God can do is good, and can do no wrong, as it would go against His nature I have to trust in Him. I have to accept that He sees the big picture, and I can only see a small piece, I may end this life never knowing why God took Steve, but I trust in Him and know that everything that happens is within His will, it’s the only thing I have left to hold onto.
I love you Steve, and I’ll see you soon, but not yet, not yet.
-Josh
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30 days and counting
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