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I suspect many if not most people reading this share this common childhood experience: bowing your head, closing your eyes (maybe peeking a little bit to make sure your brother or sister has their eyes closed), clasping your hands together in front of you and saying, "God is Great, God is Good, let us thank Him for our food…"
 The Bible says on many occasions that we need to learn from and become like little children. Children believe what they are told because they trust the ones who told them. When our mother, father or grandparent told us that God is great and God is good, we believed it. No little child ever engaged their parents in a theological discussion about the goodness, the greatness or the fairness of God.
No, it’s only when we get older, more sophisticated, and to be gut-level honest, more susceptible to the lies of our adversary that we begin to question how good or great God is. It’s strange that after years and years of seeing and experiencing the faithfulness of God, we still question Him and doubt Him.
God is great, God is good… but if God is good, what about all of those innocent men, women and children who are dying in Darfur?
God is great, God is good… but if God is good, why did He allow my loved one to die?
God is great, God is good… but if God is good, how can He send people to hell?
You know, sometimes, as much as it pains us, we just have to admit we don’t have all the answers. We don’t see the whole picture. But God can and does. And we know that He is working all things together for our good.
It is in those times that we don’t have all of the answers that faith comes into play. It is then, in the words of Charles Spurgeon, when we cannot trace the hand of God that we have to trust the heart of God. "For I know the plans I have for you," the Lord declares in Jeremiah 29:11, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
God is Great. God is Good. Let us thank Him.
Alan Riley
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I'm good with the mystery! Mystery is fine with me! Really, I don't need to know it all. In fact, some say the less the better. Praise God he's God and I'm not! Trust...
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| To be as little children, It is a shame we lose that innocence. But GOD IS GOOD because as a believer He restores it. I'm fine with the mystery too because I know my God will take care of me. |
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| September 24, 2008 |
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13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
2:9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him," 2:10 God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11:13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" It is so important to remain childlike in faith trusting and believing in the goodness of GOD, not just generally, but specifically for the desires/hopes that we have cherished in our heart. |
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| September 24, 2008 |
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I'm a firm believer people send themselves to hell, hasn't he provided a fairly easy escape? All we have to do is believe in Jesus...
As far as people dying in this world that is the point isn't it, we are in the world not heaven right now, and as scripture says it is appointed for every man to die...AND to die is gain...to me death is not the worse thing, going to hell is...cause that is eternity we are talking about...it is up to each man and woman to choose....
God has provided so much for each one of us...the Word tells us that over and over...in my opinion it is up to each of us to grab ahold of those and to stop acting like infants on milk when it comes to growing up in Christ. Knowledge is power, and learning Gods perspective is just plain wisdom, it gives us the tools to truly defeat the devil in our everyday lives but that is up to us... |
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| September 24, 2008 |
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Love this. A couple of weekends ago, my six yr old grandson asked us if we were Christians, we said yes! He said in not a good tone" How can you say you are christians?" I asked him what he meant by that question....he replied " Well, you can't be christians, you don't even go to our church!" hehehehehe we live 75 mi. from them......so he and I had a discussion on christianity and church. Actually a deep one for a 6 year old.
Then he was fussing at the stop light and I said " Say "Please Lord change this light to green".............he did and the light changed, hehehehe He said "So does God really control everything, including the lights?" I told him yes and to now thank God for changing that light. He thanked God and then said "Well, God may control everything but he don't control us".....at this point Ken stepped in and started a theological discussion on choice, and I started laughing and telling him to keep it simple, LOL |
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