...expand your understang of the nature of God? Consider Deut. 32 39, "...It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand." That humbles me alot. It also makes me ponder why God would wound. Consider, for example, Jacob for whom God wounded in the hip. There is a reason for everything with a God who is all-knowing and all-powerful. In Jer. 29:19 the Lord says, "'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.'" Wounding may even be from God, who desires to give us a future and a hope. Consider Job, who did nothing to derserve his adversity - even his children were killed, yet glorifies God to this day through his suffering. This makes me pause and refine my understanding of God and love. This just is not emphasized enough in church...I believe. What you you think?
2006-07-26 04:16:57 · 4 answers · asked by BowtiePasta 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Like the story of Joseph who at the death of Jacob told his brothers who worried that Joseph was mad at being sold as a slave that it was God who sent Joseph ahead to help save the brothers who sold him to slavery.... there can be unexpected greater good not understood in the troubles
In the story of Job, it was in fact God who first asked Satan if he considered His servant Job... so in the end it was God's idea to have Satan ponder Job (pound on Job) for a eventual greater purpose
2006-07-26 04:20:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't understand the book of Job. His son's did sin with their sisters and Job was making atonement for their sin.That is what opened the door for Job to be able to have adversity.
Otherwise part of the word of God is a lie......If ye follow that which is good who shall harm you.
Jacob did not want to accept what God had said and wrestled an angel,it would have been better for him to have said Yes Lord.
You want to see suffering is of God I don't.It is from God but I choose the blessing.1 Psalm....Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor sitteth in the seat of the scorner nor stand in the way of the sinner,but his delight shall be in the law of the Lord.
2006-07-26 04:35:25 · answer #2 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Mark, you bring something to the world that not too many people like to deal with. My son teaches Hebrew to his children, and since the first 5 chapters in the Bible state over and over how Jehovah God
is punitive, it gives one pause.
Well, my opinion is without Jesus
Christ, I guess we would all be sunk, but we have a merciful God, and through God's grace we are saved from such punitive actions.
The message: we reap what we sow is also not applied very much, unless one has relatives that do not relent in reminding one of this truth. Repent, forgiveness, love yourself and others.
2006-07-26 04:25:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The New Testament Fathers considered trouble to be a good thing also, like a refiner's fire is to precious metals. When the heat is on, the basic substances are separated, and what is desired can be separated from the dross (unwanted crud).
Nobody said life would be easy.
2006-07-26 04:23:48 · answer #4 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋