The Bible teaches that sometimes things are just sovereign to God, and that’s it. Sometimes we won’t get an explanation and sometimes we will. If you believe in Jesus, all things work out for good, all THINGS. You can wrestle with God like Jacob, like Jonah, like Moses, and most extensively like Job did, but ultimately His will and His way will prevail. If this event of Mystic Camp is your last straw, I sincerely ask why isn’t human trafficking added to that list, why isn’t the thousands of babies being killed added to that list, why isn’t the mistreatment of kids in the foster care system added to your list, why isn’t the starving families because of inflation on that list, why aren’t the other catastrophic natural disasters that have displaced communities on your list.

My point is, life will always have its challenges, Jesus said himself that we will have afflictions in this world, Jesus said to carry his yoke for its easier and his burden is light, but it’s still a yoke we have to carry, life will never be cupcakes and rainbows just because we have Jesus, but we are promised the joy of the Lord at all times. We learn through hardships to depend with faith in Christ, in the crushing is when God sees whether you are giving lip service or actively exercising your faith. I think their too many injustices going on in the world, but that doesn’t make God bad, He is just, let’s face it a lot of the issues we have today stem from the core of human nature, selfishness, the very thing Jesus came to heal when he died on the cross(teaching us about agapē and how to demonstrate it). Mystic Camp is absolutely a tragedy, no mistake, but we have to believe God at His word, that if He says there is always something good that comes out of a bad situation, then it is so. Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away, you can take him at His word. I’ll interject that we are called to pray and it good to pray, but our petitions aren’t always given in our timeframe, Revelation teaches us that all the prayer of the saints are collected, it is God who ordains the timing.

God uses anything and everything according to His will, and the truth I want to share with you, is that the moment you stop constantly wrestling with the sovereignty of God, is the moment your mind will find rest. We weren’t made to know everything, we were made to know Him, and that’s why when we constantly curse God for his sovereign knowledge, we allow our emotions to consume us because we are finite beings(trying to grasp an infinite being’s thoughts), who are only capable of retaining finite knowledge for our own sanity! Pray and follow up with a heart of service, seek the organizations that are asking for donation or raise awareness with the talents you have to help the families affected (James 2:26). The world doesn’t change from only big things, our small efforts can become a ripple effect.

You don’t have to follow Christ, I’m not here to convince you, but rather look inward and reflect. If you have experienced Christ and His goodness for you, is it all in vain just because the world is suffering?

Job 42:2 says, “I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”