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1 | John 9:3 and God's Sovereignty | John 9:3 | Hank | 9659 | ||
Terry M, I've chosen to post a brief side-note to your excellent question rather than to attempt the gargantuan task of answering it with any degree of the care and thoroughness it deserves. Perhaps, and I submit this with some reservation, your question can never be answered with much more definitiveness than to say that there are some things about God's will and purpose -- perhaps more than just some -- that we do not and cannot understand. The question of why the righteous suffer was never really answered in the Book of Job. The question of why God made Israel to be his chosen people is hard to answer. Why are some human beings born with keen minds and sound bodies while others inherit feeble minds and deformed bodies? Genetic science attempts to answer this question "scientifically" but it is hardly comforting or spiritually satisfying to the parent of a child who has a congenital abnormality...... Some 12 years ago my wife and I suffered the agonizing loss in a car wreck of our youngest child, a fine, bright, robust son whose life ended so abruptly before he was quite 21 years old. Why? What purpose did it serve? Did God decree this? Did God create him thus to die in the bud of his life? This, and a million more, are imponderables to which no one but God Himself has the answer..... There was a time in the wake of my son's death that I was outright angry with God. Like the psalmists of old, I cried out in my spirit, "Why, O Lord, Why?" My answer, and my eventual healing, came in the realization that God is God and I am mere man, a created being by the hand of God. God is sovereign, He is in charge of it all, He is just and loving and good. And I, like Paul, see through my mirror but dimly. God has been most gracious to me and to my wife and other children in His healing of this great wound. And, in the words of the old hymn my mother loved to sing, "We will understand it better by and by." --Hank | ||||||
2 | Thank you... | John 9:3 | TerryM | 9782 | ||
Thank you for your very personal and thought provoking response. It was not my intention to solicite answers but only opnions. I do realize that some secrets will not be revealed until Jesus returns. But in doing my studies, no matter what the subject, I am always directed back to what our purpose is in God's plan. I have never suffered the loss of a child and I can not begin to imagine the pain. But the loss of my father 4 years ago was a turning point in my life. My prayed faithfully and without ceasing for the healing of my father (he had lupus) and God's answer was no. I went through an angry period where I turned away from God. My father and I were very, very close and I always consulted him on major decisions. After that, I went through a weeding out process where I was separated from people I relied on (family and friends). Then I came to the point where I had no one to rely on but God. And that is exactly where He wanted me. I could not hear the voice of God as long as I was listening to others. When you hear that age old "everything happens for a reason" line, you just want to smack that person. But now I have come to know that that is true. Everything that has happened to me so far in my life has brought me to this point where I am now...humbly seeking the Lord for my part in His plan. Every since I made the leap of faith and answered my call to the ministry, every person that the Lord has led to me I have been able to minister to based on past experiences. Did I go through all that I did so I could be of service in God's kingdom? Was I placed in my mother's womb and given certain traits, abilities, inabilities, and shortcomings so that I could fall and be delivered so I could help others? At this point I believe the answer is yes. I am not making generalizations and saying that this is true for everybody. But I believe that God what God has allowed in my life has brought me to this point. Terry |
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3 | Thank you... | John 9:3 | Morant61 | 9874 | ||
Greetings TerryM! I didn't get to read all of this thread yet, but I would concur with your testimony. My wife and I lost a son to congential heart defects. While I do not believe that God caused it to happen, I do believe that God used it to mold me and make me a better, more loving Christian. May God Bless your Minsitry! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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