Dear Melissa,
First let me say you have not been the first to ask such difficult questions. Before I go into my personal answer. I would like to challenge you to read through the Bible and ask God Himself. He is not one who withholds information. He wants all of His children to know Him to know His character. Yes you are right the grass, the trees , the sunset all are beautiful creations from God. Gifts to us. But God’s most precious creation is man and woman, I am sure you were able to recognize that when you gave birth to your sons. He delights in us and never ever desires harm to come to us. He has a plan for each one of us and it is a good plan, a plan to prosper us and not to harm us to give us hope and a future.
In His creating us He gave us free will. And I am sure you remember how Satan was the Angel who was in charge of worship and he became jealous and thought he could be like God. Pride came in and he fell from Heaven with one third of the angels. So Satan and the third of the angels are demonic spirits now. We chose in this life whom we will serve Satan or God. Now your first questions.
Remember these are my answers and again I encourage you to ask Him yourself.
1.Why if God is so Great and Heals people, are so many of his people dying illness? First there is sin in the world. Satan has convinced us that what ever feels good do it. Well there are consequences to our choice good or bad. Not all people are sick because they personally have sinned. But sin in the world effects everything. Secondly we have become proud, we have so many intelligent doctors in the world who “we think” have all the answers. Yes God has given Doctors wisdom. And yes some of His children die but some are healed as well. We have become so dependant on Doctors that we have forgotten the simple truth of God. He is our Healer! So we ask Doctors to heal us instead of God. We all need to see Doctors and follow their advise at times, I am not saying you should not see Doctors. Luke in the bible was a doctor. We all also need to ask God to heal us, and pray for him to heal others. Who have you prayed for God to heal and believed that He could and would?
2. If Jesus was able to turn water to wine why and feed a great number of people with one loaf of bread, are there so many children going to bed hungry and waking up without clean water to drink?
Well Jesus did turn water to wine and He did feed multitudes with a loaf or bread and two fishes.? You see we all have a responsibility to participate in ending world hungry and other devastating crisis in the world. If we would follow the instruction given in the bible there would be no world hungry and all would have clean drinking water. We all walk in our own way, what seems right to us and ignore the instructions God has clearly line out for us to follow. It is called PRIDE What have you personally done to feed the hungry and give clean water to those without?
3. Why do so m any people talk about finding God at the lowest point of their life, but so few ever talk about finding him at the high point? This is the simplest to answer because people only recognize their need for God when they are at a low point in their life. When they are at high points they “think” they are doing great and the way “they” are going is right. The thoughts in a mans heart seem right to him. It is only when things fall apart that we begin to think maybe we don’t have it all together maybe we don’t have all the answers. Once again PRIDE
4. Why do people say things like “it all in God’s hand’, “ God never give you more than you can handle” Every things happens for a reason” “It’s all part of God’s plan” when something bad happens? People are people and they don’t know what to say so they say whatever comes to mind. The really do want to make you feel better and in their inability to fix what has happen they seek to make it somehow seem right. I think it stems from if God is okay with it then it must be good. Let me tell you God grieves when we grieve, God hurts when we hurt, God desire is for good not harm, but life happens and when bad things happen He will walk us through it, if we want Him to, but He will never force Himself on anyone, remember He gave us the choice. Life will be perfect in eternity with God and not until then.
As to your comments about God being bored, oh dear God is never ever bored. God knows who He is and what He is capable of and He desires for each of us to know who we are and what we are capable of in this life. He desire is that we live an abundant life and that means every area. He is ever working in order that we might catch a glimpse of His plan for our lives. His choice, His destiny for us. If we just let go of our pride admit we are unable to walk through this life without him, and put our trust in who He is the lover of our soul.
5. I don’t know why God does things the way he does. Do you?
God does things the way He does them because He knows best. He sees the whole world at once. He see the big picture, the whole tapestry, however you want to say it, but let me be clear in stating I believe that there are allot of things that people blame on God that are not God’s doing at all, they are a result of living in a sinful world which started with pride and continues to spiral in the wrong direction because man continues to follow his own way, thinking he knows best and caring only for Himself. Pride
Dear Melissa I don’t understand everything about God or His ways but I also admit I don’t understand my self many times, my own prideful actions, my prideful ways. But without a shadow of doubt I know that God is a God full of compassion and mercy and grace and His love for mankind is unfathomable. I challenge you to read through the bible yourself and be honest with God and yourself, he already understands you and He delights in you!
First let me say you have not been the first to ask such difficult questions. Before I go into my personal answer. I would like to challenge you to read through the Bible and ask God Himself. He is not one who withholds information. He wants all of His children to know Him to know His character. Yes you are right the grass, the trees , the sunset all are beautiful creations from God. Gifts to us. But God’s most precious creation is man and woman, I am sure you were able to recognize that when you gave birth to your sons. He delights in us and never ever desires harm to come to us. He has a plan for each one of us and it is a good plan, a plan to prosper us and not to harm us to give us hope and a future.
In His creating us He gave us free will. And I am sure you remember how Satan was the Angel who was in charge of worship and he became jealous and thought he could be like God. Pride came in and he fell from Heaven with one third of the angels. So Satan and the third of the angels are demonic spirits now. We chose in this life whom we will serve Satan or God. Now your first questions.
Remember these are my answers and again I encourage you to ask Him yourself.
1.Why if God is so Great and Heals people, are so many of his people dying illness? First there is sin in the world. Satan has convinced us that what ever feels good do it. Well there are consequences to our choice good or bad. Not all people are sick because they personally have sinned. But sin in the world effects everything. Secondly we have become proud, we have so many intelligent doctors in the world who “we think” have all the answers. Yes God has given Doctors wisdom. And yes some of His children die but some are healed as well. We have become so dependant on Doctors that we have forgotten the simple truth of God. He is our Healer! So we ask Doctors to heal us instead of God. We all need to see Doctors and follow their advise at times, I am not saying you should not see Doctors. Luke in the bible was a doctor. We all also need to ask God to heal us, and pray for him to heal others. Who have you prayed for God to heal and believed that He could and would?
2. If Jesus was able to turn water to wine why and feed a great number of people with one loaf of bread, are there so many children going to bed hungry and waking up without clean water to drink?
Well Jesus did turn water to wine and He did feed multitudes with a loaf or bread and two fishes.? You see we all have a responsibility to participate in ending world hungry and other devastating crisis in the world. If we would follow the instruction given in the bible there would be no world hungry and all would have clean drinking water. We all walk in our own way, what seems right to us and ignore the instructions God has clearly line out for us to follow. It is called PRIDE What have you personally done to feed the hungry and give clean water to those without?
3. Why do so m any people talk about finding God at the lowest point of their life, but so few ever talk about finding him at the high point? This is the simplest to answer because people only recognize their need for God when they are at a low point in their life. When they are at high points they “think” they are doing great and the way “they” are going is right. The thoughts in a mans heart seem right to him. It is only when things fall apart that we begin to think maybe we don’t have it all together maybe we don’t have all the answers. Once again PRIDE
4. Why do people say things like “it all in God’s hand’, “ God never give you more than you can handle” Every things happens for a reason” “It’s all part of God’s plan” when something bad happens? People are people and they don’t know what to say so they say whatever comes to mind. The really do want to make you feel better and in their inability to fix what has happen they seek to make it somehow seem right. I think it stems from if God is okay with it then it must be good. Let me tell you God grieves when we grieve, God hurts when we hurt, God desire is for good not harm, but life happens and when bad things happen He will walk us through it, if we want Him to, but He will never force Himself on anyone, remember He gave us the choice. Life will be perfect in eternity with God and not until then.
As to your comments about God being bored, oh dear God is never ever bored. God knows who He is and what He is capable of and He desires for each of us to know who we are and what we are capable of in this life. He desire is that we live an abundant life and that means every area. He is ever working in order that we might catch a glimpse of His plan for our lives. His choice, His destiny for us. If we just let go of our pride admit we are unable to walk through this life without him, and put our trust in who He is the lover of our soul.
5. I don’t know why God does things the way he does. Do you?
God does things the way He does them because He knows best. He sees the whole world at once. He see the big picture, the whole tapestry, however you want to say it, but let me be clear in stating I believe that there are allot of things that people blame on God that are not God’s doing at all, they are a result of living in a sinful world which started with pride and continues to spiral in the wrong direction because man continues to follow his own way, thinking he knows best and caring only for Himself. Pride
Dear Melissa I don’t understand everything about God or His ways but I also admit I don’t understand my self many times, my own prideful actions, my prideful ways. But without a shadow of doubt I know that God is a God full of compassion and mercy and grace and His love for mankind is unfathomable. I challenge you to read through the bible yourself and be honest with God and yourself, he already understands you and He delights in you!
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