Where Is God On The Bad Days?

There are bad days — one gets sick, has too much work to get done, too many bills to pay and relationship problems — and then there are really bad days — one ends up in the hospital, consequences from unfinished work lead to getting fired, the bank account goes into the negative and relationships are ruined.

And one prayed through all of that stuff, and nothing seemingly changed for the better. When that happens, it is easy to question God’s goodness. Sometimes one might even be tempted to blame him.

God could certainly fix the bad days. “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” (Genesis 18:14). God is the one who parted the Red Sea, made the sun stand still and set the cosmos in motion. But sometimes God doesn’t fix the bad days, at least from our perspective. How are we to react? With anger? Despair? Cursing the day? We need to remember that God knows what He is doing. “‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts’” (Isaiah 55:8-9).

An answer exists to the question of, where is God on the bad days? God is in the same place He was when His son Jesus was having a bad day on the cross. We know there was a very good reason for that — our salvation.  In the end, we will “consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).