The Faith To Doubt

I did a search to find out, as some suggest that God is sending a new message with the increase in earthquakes? Apparently not as, statistically speaking, there has been no increase. In fact there has been a slight decrease.
There is a thing in us humans; we want to know what happens next. This is fortunate for writers of fiction. What happens next is our bread and butter.
However not all purveyors of fiction are benign. I’ll give those I am speaking about the benefit of the doubt and assume they are in denial of their fear of the future, of a God that does not fit in their box, and are only trying to figure things out. Explanations are easier to live with than a mysterious God.
I guess it’s no sin to speculate about when the end times is coming, or asking what we can learn from events around the world and beyond that God allows to happen. However I think it’s important to remember we don’t really know. Oh, I want to know and I want to know definitively, without doubt. The trouble with that is, and I don’t think I saying anything here that isn’t widely accepted as a Christian worldview, we are called to live by faith. It is only on the other side of our earthly bodies that we will have no questions.
I know it makes for a scarier world, living with the unknown, but we are called to this, to work out our faith in fear and trembling. We have confidence, but our confidence is in Him, not in our own understanding of why He allows earthquakes.