A number of years ago while my
husband was pastoring in Georgia, I had this question posed to me one afternoon
by an adult visitor to my home. The lady in question was an emotional wreck. She
kept trying to analyze why there is so much hurt and suffering in this world if
there is a loving God in charge. Now, any rational person knows that you can
never rationalize God. God is. That should be enough for all of us to trust Him.
When Moses asked whom he should say sent him when questioned by Pharaoh, God
instructed Moses to say, "I AM hath sent me".
Hebrews 11:6 tells us that in order to please God we
must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
On this particular morning, I answered the doorbell to
find Meredith (not her real name) standing on my porch. When I said good morning
thru the screen door and started to open it to invite her in she blurted out,
"Audrey, who made God?" My quick answer was, "Why, Meredith, nobody made God."
My visitor cut me off quickly, by exclaiming, "I just
can't believe that! There had to be something or someone behind God."
I quickly invited her to come in and have a cup of
coffee and discuss it. Now, she liked that for she thought she could get me
confused enough to admit that I didn't really know who made God.
I started by "supposing" her premise were true. I
said, "Meredith, if there were someone or something that made God, then there
would have to be something or someone that made the someone or something that
made God." "Yeah, that's what I think too", she said. "Well, if there were a
something that made the something that made the something that made God, then
there would have to be something……." I saw the look in her eyes as the idea
caught hold. Covering her hand with mine, I softly said, "Meredith, it all had
to start somewhere so it started with God".
Her face lit up and she confessed that when you put
that way, then she could believe what God's word said. I was able to take God's
Word that day and show her what God says we must do to be saved. I asked her to
kneel with me right there in the kitchen and she asked God to come into her
heart and forgive her of her sins.
She did not tell her family of what she did that
morning in my kitchen. I don't know why. However, she did begin to come to our
church regularly. Before long though, her mental disease enslaved her again and
she began to doubt God's love.
Several years later, when she passed away suddenly, I
was able to comfort her children with the account of the morning when their Mom
met God and claimed Christ as her Saviour.
Who made God? It is not just a child's question. When
we can answer that question with confidence that God IS and always will BE then
we are ready to walk with Him on this earth.
Audrey Mullen waldokeith@cox.net
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