The New Year and Big Waves

Well I had a great break around Chritmas/New Year, especially around New Year, spending it with friends and a relaxing atmosphere.
As a time though it has been dominated by the events ober in asia and the bay of bengal. Such a devestating complete disaster, and just plain hard to comprehend. As a christian it makes you think, and also non-christians by looking at the letters in the paper, about where is God in these sort of events. It seems to cold to say that something good will come out of these circumstances. Maybe the wisdom of Homer Simpson is more fitting where he says "its just a bunch of stuff that happened".
But we know God isn't random and whether he activly made it happen or allowed it to happen we know that he is in control. After discussing allo this with a good mate and having a read through Job I think the conclusion we must reach is that we connot hope to comprehend with our minds the one who made our minds. We have a notion of what a loving God should behave like yet we can't even begin to comprehend that realm in which he lives and operates. Who are we as humans to decide what God can and connot do with his rebelous sinful creations - and besides, he does love us because he inflicted a disaster on his own son for our sake.
So in conclusion we cannot understand God or his purposes but I bet he is interested in our response to these circumstances.