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Subject: God allowing things in our lives |
Bible Note: Dear miller521, You wrote, "...challenges in our life... do not originate with him [God]..." Afflictions, according to the Scriptures, are often used by God in order that the instruction of the Word may be effective. Do a search for the word affliction in the Psalms and count the number of times that God is said to be the author of them. Look how many times David appreciates the much needed affliction of the Lord in Psalm 119 alone. I'm not certain where you are receiving your teaching on the attributes of God, but I would pause to take time to think about some of the following: God tears, heals, smites, binds up (Hosea 6:1); devours like a lion (Hosea 13:8); wounds, afflicts, strikes, bruises, smites, makes sore, heals, kills, makes alive (Deuteronomy 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:6; Jeremiah 31:28; Job 5:18; Isaiah 53:10); forms the light, creates and causes darkness (Isaiah 45:7; Jeremiah 13:16; Exodus 10:21; 14:10); makes peace, makes the dumb, deaf, seeing, blind (Exodus 4:11); sends sore judgments upon Jerusalem -- the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast -- (Ezekiel 14:21); sends an evil spirit (Judges 9:23, 1 Samuel 16:14; 18:10; 19:9-10); sends evil angels (Psalm 78:49), shoots arrows and darts, breaks bones (Lamentations 3:12-13; Numbers 24:8-9; Deuteronomy 32:22); heaps mischief upon people (Deuteronomy 32:23); breaks in pieces horses, nations, chariots, rider, men, women, the young, the old, the young man, the maiden, shepherds, flocks, husbandman/yoke of oxen, captains/rulers (Jeremiah 51:20-23); turns men to destruction (Psalms 90:3); is as a moth and rottenness (Hosea 5:12); feeds and makes drunk with worm wood, gives the water of gall to drink (Lamentations 3:15; Jeremiah 9:15); creates and brings evil/calamities (Isaiah 45:7; Jeremiah 18:8; Job 2:10; Amos 3:6); creates the day of prosperity and the day of calamity (Ecclesiastes 7:14). etc. "I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things." (Isaiah 45:7 ESV) Furthermore, the trials of life don't just spring up from nowhere (Job 5:6). Everything that happens is under God's sovereign control. God is sovereign over the entire universe (Psalm 103:19; Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:11). God is sovereign over all of nature (Psalm 135:6-7; Matthew 5:45; 6:25-30). God is sovereign over the angels, including Satan (Psalm 103:20-21; Job 1:12). God is sovereign over nations (Psalm 47:7-9; Daniel 2:20-21; 4:34-35). God is sovereign over human beings (1 Samuel 2:6-7; Galatians 1:15-16). God is sovereign over animals (Psalm 104:21-30; 1 Kings 17:4-6). God is sovereign over "accidents" (Proverbs 16:33; John 1:7; Matthew 10:29). God is sovereign over the free acts of men (Exodus 3:21; 12:25-36; Ezekiel 7:27). God is sovereign even over the sinful acts of men and Satan (2 Samuel 24:1; 1 Chronicles 21:1; Genesis 45:5; 50:20). In Him, Doc |