"Does God care?"

The tsunami came and left destruction. The nuclear plant leaked and caused chaos. The buildings fell and people lost their loved ones. The heart attack came and he was gone. The car got hit by a truck and no one remained. In times when death is close to us, as much as life is, one nagging question keeps coming back to us, ‘Does God care?’ The answer to the question remains as it was in my first blog post ‘Yes! God does care.’

How do we know this? Let’s head to story of Jesus raising a widow’s dead son found in Luke 7:11-17(Bible). The story starts with Jesus walking towards a town called Nain; just as He is about to enter the town, He sees a funeral procession. A widow had lost her only son. It is important for us to understand the position of the widow, she had lost everything. Her only reason to live was no more. Probably the only light in her world was no more. Her source of joy, hope and a blessed future was no more.

One of the most testing times in anyone’s life is when he or she looses some they dearly loved, someone close to their heart. Because when death hits, it leaves more questions than answers. The same is the case when problems are before us; we have more questions than answers. Probably the widow was questioning her life. But what was Christ doing? Verse 13 tells us “The Lord saw her.”

In our troubles, in our painful situations, our Lord is watching us. And just like in the times when He moved on earth, God still watches us. Just like then, He is moved by our sorrow. Our God is never far, because He promised that He is Immanuel, He is God with us. God is with us not only in our times of joy, but also in our times of pain.

As we read further in verse 14, Jesus touches the body of the young man; more accurately put he touches something unclean-untouchable according to the laws that Jews believed in. But why does God do this, wasn’t Jesus capable of raising the young man with just His word?

Well He was, but then again our ways are not His ways, and our thoughts are not His. By touching the untouchable Jesus does something very symbolic. He shows that he is capable of touching those parts of our life which we consider untouchable, parts that pain us the most.

Jesus wants us to understand that He is capable to give life to everything that is dead in us. He wants us to understand that though our dead faith can be brought to life, by His touch. He wants to understand that our decayed hope can be renewed by His touch. And our untouchable soul can be made glorious by His touch.

We may be in pain, we may be untouchable, and maybe right now there is a feeling of hopelessness around us. In all of this, I know our Lord is watching. He is wanting to calm the storm, He is wanting to heal, and He is wanting to touch our world, but are we willing? Are we willing to believe in Him? Are we willing to make Him our comforter? Are we willing to trust His every move? These questions are the ones that need to be answered, not the one we started with.


God surely cares, but do we care about God?