John 10:10 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly!
God is a good God and he wants us to have a happy and successful life. He does not cause the awful things in our life, nor does he "allow them to happen to teach us". Thats total bullshit. So the question develops... Why do bad things happen to good people?
God created us with a choice to trust him and live in a good world, or we can know of good and evil, blessing and calamity. We all know what in our human nature chose.
We now not only make our own bad decisions which cause bad consequences. We also have Satan who attempts trick and manipulate us and the people we come across on a daily basis. His daily goal is to destroy our life and our love toward God. It is his trickery that convinces people that God did it.
God has also given us authority on this Earth. He CREATED this world and universe with his words. Then he created us in his image and told us to speak to our mountains. He gave us Angels to protect us and follow what we say. BUT we limit not only ourselves but our Angels' protection. We say things like " Oh I'm always in the wrong place at the wrong time" or "If somethings out there I'll catch it and get sick". So our angels listen to our words and instead of prompting us to avoid somewhere, or stopping the car that about to hit you.. they wait. They don't understand why we want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but we told them thats what we wanted.
Tragedy's are caused by not listening to the promptings of Holy Spirit and by the theif/ the destroyer, the murderer- Satan.
We chose to live in a world that contains good and evil, so God cannot keep all the Evil out..we let it in.God is a good God and loves us very much! Which is why every time a tragedy happens, it is through him that we can find our way. God has plan A for us. Then something awful happens. God gives us plan B instead. It was not his plan for you fall but he will pick you up again every time! Through him we can overcome any obstacle.
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Are you feeling firey today? I do believe we can overcome anything with God. I also believe that he allows us the privilege of growing, and that sometimes when hard times come that we can become stronger if we allow ourselves to rely on God. I also believe that life is all about choices and that we can choose happiness or misery in every part of our lives. In one path, we are following and rejoicing with all the favor of God and in the other we are allowing Satan's lies to rule and bind us.
I am just smoldering now. I overheard someone the other day say "God put me in a motorcycle accident, because he didn't want me to go to college" I just needed to voice my opinion about it so I could let it go.
Thank you for your comments too, I appreciate them.
Here's a related topic, with comments from a few people.
http://i-have-a-testimony.blogspot.com/2009/06/thoughts-on-suffering.html
Bre,
This was great!!!!
Christy
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