Here in Lexington, KY, an awful accident took place when a wall from a parking garage crushed Stephanie Hufnagel. The car that hit the wall caused that slab of concrete to fall, thereby crushing Stephanie and her 8-month-old unborn baby.
Why would God allow that to happen? The son of one of our members asked that question. Here are some of my answers:
- God puts on display that we are in the land of the dying and that this world is under the curse of sin and death (Romans 8:18ff).
- God puts on display that life is but a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow, and thus gives us a deterrent to our boasting and arrogance. James 4:13-16 tells us, "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— [14] yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. [15] Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." [16] As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil."
- God puts on display the question, "Why that woman and her unborn child and not I?" Hundreds of people walked by that spot where Hufnagel and her child were killed. Now, many will be asking themselves, "Why was I spared?" Now, I pray that in light of this, many would see that "the wages of sin is death" and that they would see they do not deserve the life that God has given to them. God is holy — we are not. May this drive hundreds of people to Jesus our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer so they may be made right in the eyes of God should their earthly life be done.
Just some thoughts.
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