Where is God?

Today the pathology reports came back that Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor at The Village Church, has cancer and that it will be a tough road ahead because the doctors couldn't removed it all with the first surgery. Matt is 35 and one of the most influential pastors for the next generation. Where is God? One of my high school friends is still dealing with the fact that on Good Friday her husband fell seven stories and is still in the hospital with sever trauma. Where is God? All over the world families are being slaughtered in the streets, children are being pulled into wars, little girls are sold as prostitutes. Where is God? The answer that we find isn't always the one we want but the answer is He is right here. God is right here for us in all the pain and all the things that are so wrong in this world. God is right here when it isn't fair. Do I pretend to know why God allows these things to happen? No, but I do know based on His Word that He is here and that He is in control. God's ways are beyond our ways and His knowledge is far beyond our knowledge so all I can do in times like these and in a world like this is hold on to the promise that God is here and still in control.