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Deal with it...
• Ex 2:2a I am the Lord your God
It makes no difference what ideas rattle around inside your head. God is still God. Deal with it.
• Job 40:9 Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Can we compete with Him? Are you such a fool as to imagine you can? He does what we cannot. We can't do it all, not ourselves personally nor ourselves collectively as a team, a culture, or a race. Even if we had the knowledge and the right, we would still lack the power. We can't, he can, deal with it.
• Job 41:11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
It isn't ours and never was. We are the property, not the owner. We aren't in charge and we can't give to God what is already His. Get over your own self importance. Just deal with it.
• Prov 16:4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
All the time I hear about how God is unfair, and people complaining about why evil exists and why bad things happen to good people. God is God (see above), God has the power (see above), and its His to do with as He sees fit (see above). Yes, he created the people and spiritual beings that are evil. He knew it, he has a plan. We don't have to understand and it makes no difference whether we think its fair or not. We aren't perfect, we aren't God, we need to shut up our grumbling self-important selves and get humble. Trouble is coming, and even trouble has a purpose. We don't have to like it, but we do have to deal with it.
• Is 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Once again, it ain't us, its HIM in charge. Need I remind you: deal with it...
• Acts 17:24-25 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
Church buildings aren't God's house. We can build them, but that doesn't mean He'll come. Jesus declaired his body was a temple. His example is the one to learn from. The Spirit resides in the heart of the redeemed, not the building of the refinanced. Your church won't get you to heaven. That requires forgiveness, and forgiveness is the gift of God. While it can't be earned, it can be rejected. Jesus doesn't demand us to believe, but he does demand we believe if we want to be saved. Faith is no small matter and it isn't a mere statement we make. It is a way of life. It does not require perfection on our part, Jesus was already perfect, but it does require earnest submission and commitment.
If you think you can find another way to eternal life, good luck with that. You won't. Deal with it.
PS - If I offended anyone with yesterday's make-believe tabloid, it was all in fun and there was a moral to the story, but regardless of the attempt at redemption, I am sorry if I offended anyone. If I offended anyone with today's post, ask yourself - is it Lance offending you, or SomeOne Else? Deal with it... |
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