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NASB | John 9:3 Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 9:3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God might be displayed and illustrated in him. |
Subject: John 9:3 and God's Sovereignty |
Bible Note: 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 |
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