"Where is God?"

It is often in the times that we need God the most that we forget his true nature. When I look at the world around me and I see the hunger and the pain and the persecution which spreads across the globe I often find myself wondering, where is God? Being that I personally am just now beginning to open myself up to Christianity I find that the beginning of this chapter hits home -- it addresses the very questions that I have posed for many years in questioning God and Christianity. It's difficult to keep our minds in the heavens when the horrors of life on earth stare us in the eye through our television sets. In the first few verses of Matthew 5 Jesus reminds us of where our true goals should be. In a world full of hate and run by power and greed it is easy to ask "where is God?", but Jesus reminds us that he is here, by our sides, waiting for us to come to him; that in the end we will be greatly rewarded regardless of our trials and suffering. I found these first few verses to be refreshing and genuine -- I only wish that a fraction of what we are to receive in heaven could be shared here on earth.
~Kelsey