I want to comment on a song by Red called "Let it Burn." Below is an excerpt from the song:
I watch the city burn
These passions slowly smoldering
A lesson never learned
Only violence
Is your world just a broken promise
Is your love just a drop of rain
Will we all just burn our fire
Are you still there
How long can you stand the pain
How long will you hide your face
How long will you be afraid
Are you afraid
How long will you play this game
Will you fight or will you walk away
How long will you let it burn
Let it burn
Let it burn
I will not condemn what was said in the song. I do offer commmendation, rather, for the honesty therein. I feel many of us feel these things without admitting it. We have family members that we've tried to lead to Christ for years with no steps forward. Friends continually push aside Christ's Gospel. Perhaps, like Red, we grieve for groups of people or the world in general, wishing that they might be reconciled to God. Tears are shed over these people and hearts are broken over lives and deaths disassociated from God. We wonder "where is God here? Doesn't He care about them?"
In these situations it is encouraging to think that though we love them, God loves them more. Though we grieve over their wandering, He grieves more. They torment us with their mockery of Christ, but God is tormented all the more. Can we honestly believe that the shadowy love that bubbles out of our feebleness, though genuine, exceeds the love God has for them? I don't know why some are saved and others are not. I don't know why I'm saved and not them. But I know God's love is greater than mine. Regardless of what we think needs to happen, we are merely to shuttle His love. Though He may seem absent in a persons life whom we dearly love, He is still there. God loves you. God loves them. Grieve. Weep. You are in good company.