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GOD, THE GREAT "SADISTIC" STORYTELLER
GOD, THE GREAT "SADISTIC" STORYTELLER
(on how our lives are much like Sarah's)
by Yvonne W. Bao
For the last 14 years, Yvonne worked in Asia to
fight against hunger and human trafficking. She has recently moved to Germany
in pursue of a new life and career. I have had the privilege of getting to know
her via email and Skype. She may guest blog here from time to time.
It dawned on me that God is a
great storyteller. By that, I mean, he certainly has the ability to spare us
all the setbacks and suspense we normally experience as humans. He could just
hand out to us whatever he has in mind in a blink of the eye. Didn’t he once
simply utter: “Let there be…” and lo, there they were, the heaven and the earth
and all that is in between.
So, any delay in the
deliverance of his promise is obviously not a matter of competency. Could it be
one of discretion then? Perhaps he could have refrained from stirring our heart
with a vision or dream from him just before its immediate fulfillment, in case
the Enemy who is diligently “patrolling the earth” would surely try to undermine
the little faith we humans do have.
No sacrilege is attempted but as
my walk with God prolongs, I couldn’t help noticing and being alarmed that he
seems to "sadistically" enjoy the emotional havoc that the waiting
process wreaks in the fickle human heart...and body, too. Or, to say the very
least, he's perhaps, well, just stoically indifferent to our suffering.
