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Kat:
--- Quote from: Rick on November 09, 2014, 07:10:02 PM ---Wisdom tells me your absolutely right , until anyone is confronted with any situation, one does not know how they will respond / react until that precise moment.
The carnal mind is a strange thing to behold, who can know it or the works there of, for it in its self is a slave to sin not righteousness. :(
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Pro 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
So we cannot possiblly know what we would or would not do? Don't we think about these things and come to some ideas of where we morally stand on issues? Sounds like some people have thought this thing through quite a bit. So do we trust God to protect us and our family... or do we keep a gun handy as a backup just is case He forgets about us and 'we' need to do something?
Luke 12:7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Psa 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
Pro 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Rinus:
Hi kat
Talk about telling it like it is.Your wise words always put a smile on my face,and reveal your experience.Absolutely love your response!
Dave in Tenn:
No, we cannot possibly know what we will or will not do. Sorry. We work out our salvation with fear and trembling because we KNOW that it is God working in us both to WILL and to DO His good pleasure.
I know of people who seem to be itching for some evil to befall them so they can pull out their gun and get 'em some justice. But even if they plan THAT, theLord may still soften their hearts and give them another way. And I know of one mild-mannered youg man who tried to endure persecution and be a 'good christian' and wound up hurling a desk across study hall at his tormentors. Nobody was injured, and I--I mean HE--didn't get in trouble.
Away from the 'personal' and back to the OP. I can't help it. I'm glad the allies won WWII. I'm glad the Union prevailed in the American Civil War. I'm glad for the fall of communism in central and eastern Europe. Even though in all of those instances when the will of God actually became KNOWN instead of often claimed by all sides and speculated about, there were evils that came out of those "goods". I'm thankful for those God has ordained to do His will, and forgive the rest. I also forgive those who are ordained to do His will and am thankful for the rest. The only ones I have no real feelings for are the one who don't do a d--n thing. What am I supposed to feel for 'nothing'?
EVIL has no moral component. Perhaps "good" doesn't either. People have done "good" things with "evil" consequences and "evil" things with good consequences. Wisdom tells me there is such a wide-range of outcomes to every major occurrence that only God Himself can make sense of it all. Good thing, because He is at the helm of it all in the first place. God is sovereign over ALL that happens. HE created evil and INTENDS EVIL FOR GOOD. HE is reconciling ALL THINGS unto Himself. He is still at it, even though many are sure they have it all figured out.
I reckon I am so radical that not only do I not place the Law of Moses on gentiles--I don't place the Sermon on the Mount on the world at large. The "option" or "choice" or power to love your enemies is NOT open and available to the world. If it IS, then they aren't really the "world" any more, are they?
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