"I want ONE solid answer about WHY GOD ALLOWS.... to happen !!"
This COMPOSITE of ANSWERS in an abbreviated form should provide the answers you have been looking for:
We're going to move quickly so pray for your mind to open and your heart to be receptive:
1. YOU must understand that this life is just a 'testing ground' a precursor. 2. GOD created us and sin tainted us so GOD had to separate those who can come to HEAVEN and be with HIM from those who never could. 3. THIS life only counts as a sifting process. 4. You come into this life knowing nothing. You have 'traits' from your family linage ...but what you become is up to you. 5. The same circumstances and virtually the "same people" (personality types) follow you most of your life until you learn from them or learn how to deal with them. 6. The Miraculousness of GOD is that HE can use ONE circumstance to heal some, kill some, change some, enlighten some...all the same circumstance. 7. The sooner you understand that GOD is the BOSS the better you will be. The clay doesn't tell the potter what to do. The Ant doesn't have the same perspective as the EAGLE. 8. You can run, you can hide, maybe from everyone..but never from GOD. 9. GOD is hard to believe in. Seriously. For some it's "TOO GOOD to be TRUE"; for others who have never experienced love, especially love from a parent - Father in particular - it's nearly impossible to believe how much HE loves us. YOU are not alone. 10. All of the folded hands, the uplifted eyes, the prayers spoken out loud will not bring anyone to GOD. In fact, those who are the most PIOUS are probably the most doubtful (privately) about their faith. 11. ONCE you accept that GOD MADE you, none of that Darwin stuff (which has been soundly disputed) ....will have any effect on you... so then you probably need to begin to SEEK GOD. 12. Some of those books on the BOOK reference drop-downs on this site are the best around...they are the most truthful, least hysterical and have stood the test of time. 13. The TRUE CHRISTIAN FAITH is the same all over the world and from one century to the next. WHY? Because it's the TRUTH. It doesn't adjust to current standards, it doesn't change. HEAD FOR THE TRUTH. 14. FINE you say, but what about why GOD allows all this stuff to happen? THINK. IF all you had to do was wake up in a cushy bed, eat a cushy breakfast, drive in a cushy car to your cushy job and never had a thing to worry about (even though most of us spend way too many hours dreaming of just that life - and how to get it!) We would be nothing more than marshmallow!! GOD USES TROUBLE TO GROW OUR CHARACTER AND TO REFINE US And much like GOLD probably hates the refining flame - for it to be purified, it has to be put in the fire. 15. GOD is aware of everything that has and will happen to us. WE have the opportunity to pray to Him, to ask Him to "let this cup pass from us" but notice that even in your worst moments, you DO came out on the other side. Whether or not the "cup is passed from you" depends on GOD'S plan for you. 16. FROM the moment you breathe your first breath until your last, you are in the UNIVERSITY OF GOD. You've learned a lot as you grow older. Some of you think it's all your doing... the fortunate know better. 17. IF this life was ALL there was - If GOD created us as little theatrical pieces to be disposed of in some sadistic play for which He is the Director, HE would be horrible. He would be a brat like the 3 year old who tears down his Older Brother's Lego village that took him a week to build. 18. BACK TO THE : GOD CREATED US and WE BELONG TO HIM.... Okay, so we know this life is just a blink of an eye; just the introduction. We have our entire lives to FIND GOD and once we start that trip, once we get over our ego, once we admit that we didn't make ourselves and we have enough sense to know we didn't 'explode' from some rock(s).... we begin to take tiny steps....Maybe we quit using His name as a cuss word; Maybe we turn off violent TV; Maybe we go to Church more than once a year... maybe we even read something about GOD or HIS SON JESUS... and then it happens: |
19. Little by little GOD begins to speak to us. It may be as simple as your asking GOD a question...like why do flowers bloom in spring? And the next thing you know, you'll stumble across a book or see it on TV or someone on the bus will be talking about "flowers blooming in the spring". Ah, Coincidence you say...but then you try it again... and you begin to Pray...not just once in a while but every day.
20. Then you begin to pray for other people you care about. You may even want to cover them in the FULL ARMOR OF GOD Ephesians 6: 10-18. You may see books that you want to read and/or see that a BIBLE study is offered by your church and you go. You might even realize that someone close to you at work or a neighbor is also on this Path...maybe ahead of you...maybe right where you are. 21. You will see horrid things happen and you will begin to sort them out. Some things happen because people aren't careful; some because they misused their bodies; some because Nature has always had fires from lightening strikes, or floods in the spring (snow melting) and you begin to realize how FRAGILE life really is. This make you appreciate all that you do have. 22. YOU think back over your life so far and you realize that the most learning you've ever experienced was after a "terrible period" of time in your life...when things just fell apart...and yet, if you've allowed yourself to 'hear GOD' you will know that the quiet hints...the guidelines that have been there..ARE STILL THERE... You can't out run GOD. You can't OUT GIVE GOD. 23. You decide that you can believe in HIM and therefore you give your life to HIM...saying something like: "Okay GOD, You win. "I believe in You and I want to give You my life...because obviously...what YOU have for me is a whole lot better than anything I Can Conjure up for me-myself!!!" 24. And that lasts for a while, but like the cyclical event faith is... you begin to pull away from GOD, skipping prayer one morning, then two then the whole week. You see and hear of horrible things happening to others...the world is like a tinder box ready to explode... 25. Something pulls you up short. Maybe a flat tire; maybe a lost job; maybe an illness (your or someone close to you) and you realize... I need GOD and back you go. This cycle goes on until you DIE from this life. 26. GOD is never going to stop allowing us to go through circumstances. There is cruelty and sadness and evil that boggles your mind (When you begin to study this whole "GOD THING" you will learn so much...truths that generation after generation have passed down, but that EACH GENERATION HAS HAD TO LEARN for themselves... It's there for you to find...but YOU have to find it. 27. The SHORT answer is that GOD allows all of these things to happen in life so we will NOT be Marshmallows. SO we will have great Character. SO that we can be of real help to Him and here's the best part: 28. SO we can be real Companions to GOD. HE could have made robots but ...who wants a robot for a friend?? Whatever HE went through to become the PURIFIED EXAMPLE OF LOVE and SINLESSNESS is something we may not learn for Millions of years...but the GOOD NEWS IS THIS: GOD is going to allow us those MILLIONS of years to KNOW HIM and find out. HIS SINLESSNESS is why HE can't have sin around HIMSELF...which is why JESUS had to come and take the SIN on HIMSELF for us...so we could take the next step which is HEAVEN. HOW DO I KNOW THIS? Because I've been on this path towards GOD for many years, and there are way too many examples of "hints" that GOD has given me to bring me to the next step. I have seen life without GOD. I see life with GOD. There is no comparison. SO now, whatever goes on in this world doesn't matter. I'm here, I'll do what I can, what I think GOD wishes me to do, but I know with every fiber in me that GOD is in complete CONTROL for a reason: HE LOVES ME. To fall in love with God is the greatest Romance; to Seek Him is the greatest Adventure; to FIND HIM is the GREATEST HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT (this from Saint Augustine) © NarrowGate 2013 |
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