God and the Moore Tornado

Question:  Where Exactly was God 

when the tornado struck Moore, OK?  

Answer:    We don't know for sure, do we?

We are left sitting on a question mark.   If we knew the exact answer to that question, then that would make us God.  We do have several options:

Option # 1
There is no God.  Everything in nature is random, blind and follows the Laws of Nature.
Option #2
There is a God but does not care.  God only creates and does not control.
Option #3
There is a God who cares enough to give us free will and not to treat us as creatures in a terrarium. This leaves us subject to the Laws of Nature.



I have heard it put this way.  If we pray to God to control the world, to change the flight of the planes toward the World Trade Center, or to call off all tornadoes that will harm--we hear silence and the world goes on.  If we pray to God to help us, God speaks in the next person who comes by to embrace us, feed us, bind up wounds for healing, and then goes with us.  The silence is broken in an ocean of compassion.  It is as if what happens NOW, is just that, and there is a future we move toward as described as the sunrise, the new day dawning that will never set:

  

 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. ⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. ⁵ And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. ⁶ And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.   (Revelation 21)