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1 | Why do good things happen to bad people? | Matt 5:45 | Saint N Says | 126349 | ||
Why do good things happen to bad people? Or can they? | ||||||
2 | Why do good things happen to bad people? | Matt 5:45 | DocTrinsograce | 126408 | ||
Theologians call this "common grace." It is in the nature of our God to be bountiful with His many blessings. However, keep in mind, that there are none of us that are good. The wonder is that God does anything for any of us. Jonah was quite concerned about just this thing. He wanted judgement -- the harsher the better -- to rain down on Nineveh. And those guys in Nineveh were pretty rotten! They actually bragged of the clever way they broke every treaty they ever made. In addition, they were known to delight in horrible tortures of captive people. Tortures that we only see in the world again until the Inquisition and among early Amerinds. However, as you study that little book of Jonah, you will see that God explains to the prophet His mercy. Since we are all evil in the sight of the Lord, what if He withheld mercy to us before we finally learned to submit to Him? Now, I've been guilty of this myself, asking God, "Why don't you just stop those people!" But when we do that, we've missed the point of the wonderful mercy of God. We are not operating in the Spirit when we ask Him to withdraw His blessings! | ||||||
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