Hello!
Wishing everyone well and good health.
So much has happened. Family, in-laws, friends, … . Health problems (cancer, diabetes, heart-disease, … ) old age, economy, death … . Can you relate?
God is blamed for so many things when something goes wrong!
Why?
Have you ask yourself? Who is ruling this world? Is it not Satan / Devil! (1 John 5:19)
If the Devil (the root cause for mankind problems) is ruling right now, why do so many people blame God the Almighty who is the personification of LOVE?
God Jehovah, the Almighty, cannot be tried with evil things.
James 1:13
When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried, nor does he himself try anyone.
What are some of the reasons for problems?
1) As mentioned, Satan / Devil is the ruler of this world, right now.
1 John 5:19
We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the
wicked one.
Revelation 12:9
So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and
Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth,
and his angels were hurled down with him.
2) Time and unexpected events.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I have seen something further under the sun, that the swift do not always win the race,
nor do the mighty win the battle, nor do the wise always have the food, nor do the
intelligent always have the riches, nor do those with knowledge always have success,
because time and unexpected events overtake them all.
3) Inherited imperfection from Adam.
Romans 5:12
That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin,
and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned.
James 1:14
But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire.
4) False prophets
Matthew 24:11, 12
Many false prophets will arise and mislead many; 12 and because of the increasing of
lawlessness, the love of the greater number will grow cold.
False prophets are false teachers.
It is sad that many individuals / Christians blame (maybe unknowingly, unintentionally, out of ignorance, … ) our Creator for the death and sicknesses of our loved once, weather it is an infant or an elderly person.
Please remember and remind yourself of the above scriptures and words. Don’t blame because out of convenience, … , or because of pain. Direct / channel the blame where it rightfully belongs and be honest with yourself. This may not be easy! Have you asked lately how our Creator, your God, Jehovah, … feels about what is going on in this world? On this earth?
What was Jehovah’s original purpose for humans / mankind?
Please think about Adam / Eve and what they lost.
Just some scriptures to shed some light on the subject, what our first parents lost and show Jehovah’s feelings / desire.
Revelation 21:3-6
With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” 5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also he says: “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
Jehovah sent his son, his very first creation, to the earth to give his life that we can gain life if we choose to.
John 3:16
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.
Have you thought about how high of a price Jehovah and Jesus paid to save mankind? Would you give up your first born, or any of your children, if you have any, to die for others? For Good people, maybe!?. ???
Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation is going, and a generation is coming, But the earth remains forever.
Psalm 37:29
The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it.
John 5:28, 29
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
Isaiah 35:5, 6
At that time the eyes of the blind will be opened, And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. 6 At that time the lame will leap like the deer, And the tongue of the speechless will shout for joy. For waters will burst forth in the wilderness, And streams in the desert plain.
Isaiah 65:21, 22
They will build houses and live in them, And they will plant vineyards and eat their fruitage. 22 They will not build for someone else to inhabit, Nor will they plant for others to eat. For the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, And the work of their hands my chosen ones will enjoy to the full.
Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever, And the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. The reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, For Jehovah himself has spoken it.
Revelation 21:4
And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.
Revelation 11:18
But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.
Daniel 2:44
“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand it forever,
James 4:8
Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you.
