Ever wonder how God operates? We really don't know. Our human mind is incapable of grasping or understanding. We just can't.
I'm pretty sure He's not the cosmic creation that some people seem to think is in Heaven currently sending down rain, floods, fires and earthquakes because "America is the Great Satan or the Whore of Babylon." To imply this is to say that, if America is the Whore of Babylon then there is a pimp. Continuing with this idea or thinking, one must assume IF America is Babylon then there's a pimp - so...that means the pimp is Israel? Right? Hello...Yes? No?
Why would God now be sending storms and disasters upon America or any other part of the world? He's God - He knew all things before they happened. At best or worst, He's simply watching play out what He already knows.
He gave us Free Will, the ability to make choices; good, bad or other. And He already knows, before we do, how we will respond and react.
Yes, God may test us. But He already knows the result. He wrote the test and knows the answers - long before we do.
Which brings me to a rerun of an episode of "The X-Files" airing tonight titled, "Improbable."
The X-Files - Improbable.
COMET TV - Sun Feb 25 @ 9 pm ET/PT, 8 pm CT, and 10 pm MT.
It's an excellent episode with Reynolds perfectly cast in the role.
Watching the episode closely, you'll notice a consistent theme using the number "3", or triple items. Is this a representation of The Holy Trinity: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit? Viewers can decide this on their own.
God allows things to happen because He already knows the outcome. He may choose to intervene, yet may choose not to. Miracles happen; this is where my tiny human mind pauses to think that if God does intervene, it's for good, not bad. Again, though, He already anticipated this because He knew about it well before it happens.
My personal opinion: He may intervene in a crisis to help and assist someone in danger, to rescue or save someone. But I highly doubt He's throwing lightening bolts down on anyone or any country because of the current political state of the world. Why would He do that when He knows the outcome? There's simply no logic in thinking He's actively punishing any one or any place. HE ALREADY KNOWS. It's already written.
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4 comments:
I have to say that we seem to have similar thoughts about the character of God, and His design for the whole of the human existence. We can pray to Him for things, like to heal our loved one from cancer, but we cannot make God change His "mind".
I think that our prayers are already known to God, and He already has the answer to our prayer put in place.
It is not like a gyroscope that once God set it spinning, He simply watches until it is done, and then sweeps in to finish His plan. I believe that God is very involved with us, but we usually don't see it. When bad things happen to us, like a divorce, it may be 30 years later looking back at things, that we see why He allowed it to happen, for our good.
Or maybe things happen to us to let us learn a lesson, even when it hurts.
In any case, thank you for a thought provoking post.
Pigpen51 , Sometimes I tend to forget this part of what you write: " I believe that God is very involved with us, but we usually don't see it. " Fully agree. He already knows what's going to happen and how we'll react or handle what we face while we don't until we're faced with whatever it is.
I also remind myself several times a day that His answers to us and all that goes with it is on His schedule, not mine.
Thanks for dropping by and Thank you for a thought-provoking comment.
The premise is God knows everything. I know has the odds stacked to his house as it always with any house of cards, the odds favor the house. It seems to my small way of knowledge and divinity that humans are a dice game. Throw the the dice and some come up snake eyes and some come up holding box cars. Sure, we can mark the dice, shave a dice, but eventually the house will come to know.
I know the odds, so I don't play them, I play the deck I am dealt and do the best I can. I go with my strengths, my cunning and cleverness. Why does God chooses to allow to us to choose? To teach, to punish and reward, we have to be in a learning environment to ascend to what our future is for to be citizens in His Realm. Some of make the cut.
Cederq , Don't know if you watched or have seen this episode, but you've summed up precisely its subject matter.
We're all dealt certain cards from the deck and have to play them to our best ability. Learning from our mistakes and repenting for what we need to. The only Free Pass is for those 4 legged fur balls we take care of and who leave us to soon.
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