A Question to Christians

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First of all, to Rhyfelwyr, that's about the best way I have heard it put in some time, and much of what you say is how I think on the question. When I last experienced a similar feeling towards El Supremo for taking a close friend of mine, I had to search the scriptures. I was drawn to the story of Lazarus's raising from the dead by Jesus. Initially, when he was brought the news of his death by Lazarus's sisters, we are told that he wept. This is proof that God felt the pain of their loss as much as they did. After he was confronted by one of them as to why he had let Lazarus die, when he could have been there to save him, he remarked something to the effect that it was by this that the power of his father could be made manifest-that he has the ultimate power over life and death.

I don't want to sound trite, or patronizing for I certainly feel your loss with you friend. I only want to ask, does not the rain fall on the just and the unjust at the same time? None of us can escape our fate, but God can use our lives, no matter how short or long they may be, for his good and the good of others.

I pray for the family and friends of this sister christian.