7/07/07
If you believe in luck, then today is your lucky day! More people are getting married today than on any other day in a long time. The Live Earth concerts are lamenting the "fact" that we are destroying our world (more or less, Live Earth is useless except for one or two bands - the rest were horrible). People are taking chances because today is their lucky day. But we must realize that luck has nothing to do with anything. It is not good luck when you get that new job. It is not good luck when you are not severely injured in a car wreck. It is not bad luck when you hear that you have some disease. Luck, per se, does not exist. God has His hand in your life and while He allows you certain freedoms, He orchestrates and uses things to help you grow in the Lord (assuming you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior). So thank God and not your good luck next time something good happens. After all, He is a loving God that loves to bless His children.
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...or, you know, PROVIDENCE...
So God forces everything to happen or does He allow us certain freedoms? I mean, if He forces everything to happen, then the drunk that drives and kills somebody should blame God right? There is no personal responsibility then. I guess I would call it Irresistable Sin.
amen matt!!
Either God is sovereign or someone else is. Who is more powerful than God? Who will thwart the hand of the almighty?
The dictionary of the atheist.
(From Octavius Winslow's, "The Banquet")
We lose much blessing and God much honor,
by not more simply and implicitly living upon
His providential care.
Those who see God's goodness in all their temporal
supplies; who recognize His superintending and
molding hand, ordering and shaping all the events;
the most minute of their personal history; shall never
be left without some marked and unmistakable evidence
of God's care and bountifulness in providing for their
temporal needs, and His wisdom and faithfulness in
ordering and directing all their temporal concerns.
Be, then, a close student of God's providence.
Seek a dislodgment from your mind of that atheism
which would exclude God from the government of
the world, and from the events and circumstances
of our individual history.
The terms 'chance', 'accident', 'contingency', as they
are employed by the world in connection with the
events of human life, should be entirely expunged
from the Christian's vocabulary. They belong solely
to the dictionary of the atheist, and should never
pass the lips of the believer.
It is the privilege of the believing mind, to see God's
hand in the most infinitesimal incident of individual life.
Tossed amid the waves of second causes, faith often
loses its anchorage on God in dark and mysterious
calamities; and the believing and devout mind, thus
for the moment loosed from its divine fastening, drifts
away amid the breakers and the shoals of doubt and
perplexity; and but for the restraining power and the
restoring grace of the Divine Shepherd would become
an utter wreck.
"Force" to me implies "causes someone to act against his wishes." God doesn't force people's actions. But he does harden people's hearts in their sin, yes? And that does lead to more sin, and to judgment upon said sin, whether in this life or the next (or both).
We retain responsibility for our attitudes and actions, which is why Exodus goes back and forth without distinction, saying sometimes that Pharoah hardened his own heart, and sometimes that God hardened Pharoah's heart. Or why Job could say "God did this to me" when Satan was the means. Or why David's sinful census is said in one place to be the work of Satan, and in another place the work of God. It's all true, at different levels of causation.
I like the words of Job to his wife...
"But he said to her, 'You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?'" Job 2:10 (NASB)
My head hurts...
-Leland Acker
I find this thought helpful - God is sovereign in much the same way that a king is sovereign.
Uh, no. I couldn't disagree more.
Because then God wouldn't be who He claims to be in Scripture.
Off topic - love the new background, even though I expected something more in the vein of "moron." Oh, sorry, "maroon."
On topic - mt head hurts, too...
"On topic - mt head hurts, too... "
So bad I can't even spell "my!"
It's probably all that Lupe's you've been eating...too much hot sauce will coz u 2 spel baaddd...
You know what is funny? I left the "unlucky" 13th comment on Friday the 13th!!! Hahahaha...now that's funny!
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