February 19, 2013 – Ezekiel 25 - 26

A lot of people see disasters and ask why God allowed it to happen. We see people suffering in countries ruled by dictators and ask why. But, God uses those things to punish people’s acts. God says over and over again that when you witness something horrible and devastating, you will know that I am the Lord. What are we suppose to take from this? You can go the normal route and stop having faith in God because no God that allows something like that to happen is a God I want to be a part of or you can take the route of trusting that God is beyond our understanding and that as human beings, we deserve punishment for our wrongs.

I will be the first to say I don’t understand the evils of the world, but it isn’t my job to understand them. We have to tell Paul all the time that it isn’t his job to protect Noah. He tries to protect him by following so close that he knocks Noah down or bothers Noah or gets him hurt trying to help. We have to say over and over that Paul’s job is to listen to mom and dad and do what he is told. It is mom and dad’s job to worry about Noah. We have the same issue. We worry about the universe and all the evil and why it is this way and why would God create this and if it is this bad there must not be a God. We have to remind ourselves it isn’t our job to understand the world. Our job is to listen to our Father, do what we are told and trust in His wisdom. Moments like that are truly a teaching moment to help me understand what it means to be a child of God.