When you want to do something about the ills of society

Commemorative concerts, fundraising efforts, public prayer vigils—all are comforting, helpful, even necessary steps that often take place after a horrendous natural disaster or human atrocity.

Following such events, inevitably people ask, How can we make sense out of such a devastating storm or evil act? And more troubling, How does a good God allow bad things to happen?

For me, part of the answer lies in what the prophet Elijah learned when his own life was at risk: that the Lord was not in the fierce wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire. Instead, the inspiration of “a still small voice” guided and protected Elijah (see I Kings 19).

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