Hi All.
A few weeks ago a feller asked me to come back, I thought about it , you see I am not normal, most preachers think I am the devil reincarnate. But I talk to you just like God talks to me that makes me different .
Suffering eh?? Hard to understand isn't it ?
I used to ask God, look if you have all these powers why do you allow so much suffering, pain , hardship and wars. If it were me I would just snap my fingers and poof there would be no wars, no guns, and in their place would be agriculture for the starving, new energy factories to improve the world, and I would fire all government officials and put in their place anyone, even those in prison, surely they will do a better job.
A little humor there God has a sense of humor, if you did not know.
It can really cause a lot of mis-understanding , someone dies in a car crash and it is said it was Gods will. That child you speak of dies in the house fire, the minister means well it is his job to comfort you so he say it is Gods will. He really does not know what to say so he says that. He means well. Just does not understand. It is not Gods will that any suffer or die, that we brought upon ourselves.
So my most important wisdom for the day is: God is more concerned with your spiritual health than your physical health. A child to young to understand, who dies is actually blessed by grace and saved and will not fall. Think about that one for a bit. I am speaking of a child now, not a ten year old street tuff who will kill you for one dollar but just a innocent child. They are saved and will not have the chance to fall.
Our wisest thoughts are total ignorance to God, but I will try.
God gives all the freedom of choice, all things are by each individuals choice. Sometimes there are consequences from those choices. Like driving drunk and killing another, or not checking safety things and a home catches on fire and a child or even the entire family dies. Sometimes we just do not know, the results of what we do. But it is all freedom of choice. Natural disasters, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes may or may not be allowed, but the laws of physics were created by God, and I cannot believe any good person caught up in that will not gain a new life. It is man who corrupts things and says other wise. And uses this to create discontent and unbelief.
It is not all my choice, it is the worlds choice, do you understand this??, I am trying hard, to convey this. I Kit do not chose to go to war, but my fellow humans have chosen this, so I am caught up in it, I will be witness to the tragic things of it all. I can wish it to go away, but sin is loose and all I can do is ask gently that God holds all who fall in his hands. I Kit would melt all their weapons and make them behave. Well God wishes all to behave too, but they have to do it by choice.
Everything bad is a result of sin. It is very hard to understand until God talks to you one on one about it. How he will do so he will chose. At the right time, when you are ready to understand.
All you can do is if you see someone suffering is not lie, and not say it is Gods will, as it is not. Just be nice and comfort them but avoid some things. There is much to learn about the bible and the suffering in it and how God actually is and how man has put his own customs and history into it all and blamed it on God. This subject is only a hint, and I will one day address in a post of my own.
Just be aware God is more concerned with your spiritual health than your physical health, some things may be allowed to gain what you should gain. Some things do happen that are very hard to comprehend, and if you listen to other people you never will you have to go ask God.
There is a small fuss on this post already, does not take long we are human eh? But suffering physical hardship or a disease or a deformed limb or what it may be, is all a result of mans sin, over the ages of time things deteriorate. And if a person in a wheel chair does still give honor to God, it brings him joy. It is witness to the world that something has to be there what am I missing. What would give this person such faith when I am mad just cause I had the flue. Just between me and you even if that person in the wheel chair does not honor God, becomes bitter and resentful, will one day still be held in Gods hands. You may not see it at the time, you may never see it but one day it will be so.
Sin, will take all these things, put them in front of you and cause you to doubt. It will be so until you simply ask God to speak to you through his word. He will do so, and more, he will cause your mind to think on things, and understand.
I hope I struggled through that one and said something that makes sense.
Kit
