Acts of God

In the wake of Japan's calamity last weekend, some have expressed their dismay at God for authorizing such devastation. Others attempt to defend God's goodness by attributing all natural catastrophes to the sin and subsequent fall of man--suggesting that God isn't really involved in the world at all. While its important to think about such things, it is slightly beside the point...really, is anyone of us in the place to judge God? Is he so small (are we so big) that he needs our defence?

I doubt that anyone who has experienced the terror of an earthquake or a ten-meter wave or a tornado wants to get into an argument about God's goodness. Indeed, having faced such enormous disasters, our insignificance becomes obvious.  How small we are.

Christians don't need to defend God because he clearly owns up to his deeds with these words, "I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disasters; I, the Lord, do all these things." (Isaiah 45: 7)

Instead of making judgement about acts of God, isn't it more productive to mull over acts of men?  For example, what happened to all the media coverage over Libya's ongoing man-made and preventable disaster?