The Left-Handed God

For many years preachers would talk about the right hand of God and what it can do. There is an array of scriptures that speaks to the limitless possibilities that we find at the right hand of God. But what about his left hand? Every time people and preachers try to talk about what God does on the left hand, they always run into an error because nobody knows. Job writes, "On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him" (Job 23:). I could write about all the theology that people invent to explain what God does on the left hand, but I choose not to. I hope one day, Christians can say that we don't know. Even Jesus once said that neither he nor angels know when the time of the Age is. (Mathew 24vs36).

With my hand holding tight to my bed and tears running across the bridge of my nose, I screamed into my pillow last December, "God, this is not fair! If you hate me, why do you keep me here? This is too much!...". I said other things I can't type that comes from a depth of sorrow and pain that words can't articulate. It comes from a depth of agony that makes Ruth, after losing her husband and two sons, cry out, " the almighty is against me," (Ruth 1 vs 21) or the one that made Jacob, in his old age, concludes that " All these things are against me." (Gen 42:36). It is a depth of sorrow that I don't wish anyone, not even my real, perceived or imagined enemy. When waves of grief hit me like Paul, I despise life itself( 2 corinthians 1:8) Yet through all of these, and even on days that I curse God out, yes, I do(You can judge me, Mr, Mrs or Miss Georgina). I remember this excerpt of consolation in my journal entry that I share below.

"It is an honor to the people who die to get there. It gives dignity, honor, and purpose to their loss that you make it to the promised land and pass the barton. The promise kept the patriarch and matriarch going despite the pain and the loss they encountered on the journey to the place that God had ordained. Almost all of the patriarchy and matriarchy of Faith suffered a loss. From when Cain killed Abel, If we assume that Adam and Eve are the first families. Abraham had to bury Sarah, the wife of his youth. I will skip Isaac and go to Jacob, who buried Racheal, a woman who he worked for 14 years to get (marry) under the oppressive work condition of his uncle Laban......"

I write this to you to comfort everyone in grief as I console myself that you are not alone. We have come through generations of men and women who traveled this path and dropped clues to survive and thrive in times like this. Surviving does not mean we won't feel the hurt of grief and its pangs, but for me, on days like this, I am learning to trust him on credit. I imagine, like me, the loss that dominated the media wave this week may have triggered some people or even evoked other kinds of post-grief emotions. I don't believe God inflicts pain to bring glory. Nobody knows why God does not stop certain negative events, yet we have to understand that God works on the right hand, where we can see him, and on the left, where he cannot be seen. I am learning that some answers to my questions may not come in this life, but I am holding on to this.

2 Corinthian 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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