How Much Suffering Before We Seek God?

How much suffering did man have to undergo before the whole of humanity decided to seek God out and let Him take charge? That was one query the Supreme Being might have been asking His minders often—if He exists, of course.

He introduced recessions, and we bounced back. He introduced AIDS and cancer, and we still kind of bounced back. Then He brought Covid-19, and the jury was still out on that one. Each time we survived, but never stopped to ask the harder question: Does God exist, and if so, why does He allow suffering?

We clearly couldn’t solve our own problems. Even after the world had been made a small village—courtesy of the Supreme Being, perhaps—we still couldn’t see beyond our egos, pride, cultural and religious affiliations. While Covid-19 ravaged the world, nations were more concerned with shipping back their citizens from troubled spots. Ironically, that very flight mentality is what helped import the virus to many countries. If God controls everything, was this another reminder of our weakness?

So, at what level would the world get desperate enough to seek the Supreme Being, in whatever religion or form He exists? That was, and still is, the big question in the Maker’s Abode.

Perhaps our Creator really wants us to launch a fact-finding mission. He may have wanted us to put everything on the table and devise a true test of finding God. We had done countless lab experiments on animals and plants, made startling discoveries in medicine and technology, but never once tested who was worshiping the right God. If we are so obsessed with proof of God, maybe calamities are His way of flipping the question back on us.

It would have been easier to answer is God real if only one person existed on earth. That lonely soul would eventually cry out to something higher, simply out of desperation. But with six and a half billion people, spread across diverse religions, sects, and belief systems—it may take nothing short of a miracle. And our Creator surely knows that too well.

Man is strange. He fools the chicken into thinking he has its best interests at heart, while planning dinner. The chicken might also be fooling something else, which in turn might be fooling its own prey. But who said the cycle started with man? Maybe man himself is the one being fooled. Why not? Think about it.

These calamities we face—recessions, cancer, plagues, climate change—might just be tools our Creator uses to reconnect us with Him. Yet every preacher and prophet of doom claimed they saw Covid-19 coming. What was it meant to solve? What have we learned? Most people were simply trying to stay alive. Until the next disaster comes, whether another pandemic or a global heatwave, will we finally decide to take desperate, meaningful measures to seek the truth?

So let’s cut to the chase. Is God there? Yes or no. And more importantly—does God exist in a way we can truly find Him? The answer might not be in books, grenades, or guns. But there is a way.

Watch this space.

We better cut to the chase? Is God there? Yes or no! Heck is there a way for  to find out.  Yes there is . Watch this Space!

 

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