Where was God?

I met a man today and we began to talk about God (my favorite topic to discuss). smile emoticon He said that he believed in God. I expected a common deistic/Christian Cameroonian explanation, however, he went on to tell me that about 5 years ago he went through a period when he did not believe in God. His daughter was brutally murdered, and he started asking himself, “Where was God when my daughter was killed?” He told me his pastor came to his home and tried to console him and the family. The admittedly bitter man asked his pastor, “Where was God when those men murdered my daughter?” The pastor responded, “God was in the same place He was when men brutally murdered His only begotten Son.” I was in awe and immediately thought of Rom 8:31-32 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” The man went on to say that he realized that day that he was a church-goer but not a child of God. He said he gave his life to Christ that day and he has never “moved his faith from God since that day.” What a testimony!