Are you one who struggles with God’s goodness? I would bet you have questioned, perhaps only in your mind, without verbalizing it, “Why did God allow this to happen, especially since He’s a Good God.“ If you say you haven’t, I’ll say you aren’t honest or you are growing senile. There is so much that happens around us that is troubling. Like why does God allow a child to have cancer and die? One thing for sure, the God I love didn’t give cancer to the child nor to anyone else. God is so Good He gave His Son Jesus to be nearly beaten to death at the hands of Roman soldier so we can be healed from all sicknesses but few believe it.
If we believed the Bible, like we say we do, every congregation would have healing services at the beginning of the meeting. Then we would spend the rest of the time praising God for His goodness. How anyone can apply the faith destroying phrase “If it be Thy will” to any prayer for healing is a mystery to me. In Isaiah 53 and in 1st Peter 2 God plainly says, “By His stripes are we [were we] healed.” Jesus is definitely the Great Physician who healed “all who came to Him.” He was moved by compassion something definitely missing in most churches today. How we can look at illnesses as “God caused” is beyond my ability to understand it, especially coming from someone who claims to be a follower of Christ.
Do you think that the folks going to Hell at Judgment are going there because God doesn’t love them? If you do, please read the Bible. God gave Jesus to die so His Blood could remove the sins of the whole world. Do you understand that while Jesus was dying, hanging on cruel nails, His dripping Blood was sufficient to remove the stain of sin from everyone ever born? Jesus is God. The angel announced to Mary her son would be called Emmanuel or God with us. God’s love is immense and beyond our ability to comprehend and only when we begin to serve Him, by reaching out to the lost and needy, can we even begin to understand. If you’re a selfish Christian you’ll never know God. He said for us to give and then the memory of our gifts will be laid up in Heaven where rust and moth can’t corrupt it. He also said thieves couldn’t break in and steal it either. Is that what we are doing? I sure hope so.
God’s will is revealed by prayerfully reading the scriptures to see what Jesus did. He said that He was only doing the Father’s will. He said we would do even more, all for the Glory of God. Do you believe that?
The problem is really a failure for us to understand the anointing of the Holy Spirit which is available to all “born again” Christians. Jesus was baptized by John in obedience to the Father where John could see and report that He saw the Holy Spirit come upon Jesus as a dove. God didn’t have to do it this way but His will is for all of us to have the anointing too. [Luke 3:16]
In Acts 2 we learn that when this power comes upon us we are enabled as witnesses. What in the world is that? Just folks who’ve experienced the mercy of a loving God. It’s called Amazing Grace and is available to everyone. For God to allow anyone to be born without the ability to become saved would cause Him to not be Good. If we Christians realized this one thing we would be offering Jesus constantly, as led by the Holy Spirit, to those who need Him. Have you ever wondered why God left you here after being born again? If you have ask Him and allow Him to tell you to share the simple Gospel. Don’t be confused by denominational bias for it’s robbed billions from coming to know Jesus. I meet folks often who are “turned off” from God’s love because they’ve never experienced it. What most encountered was a “man made” dogma which is millions of miles from the simple Gospel.
We need only to respond to God’s offer and surrender our all to Him. We can’t give Him part of our life for if we do He could only give us part of Himself something that’s not His will. It is all or nothing and until we understand this, we will suffer under religion and it’s ugliness. Did you know in most communities the pastors don’t have fellowship on a regular basis? Some never have it for they’re too busy dividing the fields white for harvest. They are staking out their part before the “opposition” gets them. How this must grieve the Lord who died for us to become one.
If you haven’t read John 17 please do it today. Read it real slow while understanding Jesus was about to go to His death for His disciples. How much He wanted them to be One just as He and the Father were one. Do you think we are one in Jesus? We aren’t one in Him in our own church fellowships. One day when we meet Him He will address this with us.
Surrender everything you have to Jesus today and escape what’s coming.
In His service,
Capt. Ben Marler
captben61@gmail.com
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