Saturday, April 26, 2014

IS IT GOD'S WILL FOR EVIL TO BE IN THE WORLD?

What do you think? Evil things that happen to you, me, and everybody else in the world make a lot of people wonder.  People struggle with trying to figure out what is going on in God's head concerning how He runs the universe.  Because He is omniscient and omnipotent, it is easy to assume He is responsible for EVERYTHING that goes on in our lives.  If you look at it that way, people never stood a chance in ever being on "God's good side."  The truth is, this way of thinking is not only backwards, but ridiculous.  God set the universe up based on a set of rules.  Some rules establish how everything exists, others are there for us to respect the decisions we make to that nothing interferes "with the affairs of man."  God made Adam, Eve, you, and me with a "free-will."  That means every human that has ever lived and will ever live has this right.  God made us in His image.  God never takes anything away that He gives.  He never took Satan's powers and authority in this world even though Jesus defeated him through death and resurrection.  The same applies to us.  Like my mom always told me, "You make your own bed, you have to lie in it."  That is the way it is.  People are affected positively and negatively by other people's decisions and actions.  As Christians, we are to spread the Kingdom of God in this world by infecting it through our lives and words. People who choose to do evil make those decisions to do evil to you and me........ NOT GOD.  Get that straight.  If you reflect on your past and remember times when you stole something or did something dishonest, realize God did not make you do anything.  What are your thoughts on this?

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