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Though, God’s “testimony” proving that “He has shown kindness. Acts of Apostles 14: 16–17 says, In the past, He let all nations go their own way. Yet He has not left Himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their season; He provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy. But there are times when crops do fail for a while. Jobs become hard to find. Families lack what they need. How are we to understand these in the light of God’s love? First, let us remember that the world God made was not a world of want, disease or death. He made it a place of plenty, health and life. Man’s sin and Satan’s rule through that sin, brought into the world the suffering we see. Even for God’s own people, this is a place of “groaning” Romans 8:22–23 says, We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
To reject the Giver of all life should mean the loss of all life. Yet the God of great mercy keeps on letting people live on His earth. He gives them many blessings. Matthew 5:45 says, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Read Romans 2:4–9, it says, Or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance and patience not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance? But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when His judgment will be revealed. God “will give to each person according to what he has done” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
When many blessings do not turn people back to God. He may try another way. He may use even the curses and sorrows that are already at work in the earth because of sin. An example of this was given by the prophet Jeremiah. His people enjoyed seasons of plenty. Yet these good times did not turn their hearts to God. Jeremiah 5:24–25, they do not say to themselves, Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest. Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
According to Matthew 5:22, 29–30 and Luke 12:4–5, the suffering in our earthly bodies is small compared to “the fire of hell” Therefore God’s feelings of mercy (compassions) may at times move Him even to use earthly pain to try to keep us from far greater eternal pain.
God does not have to make up special pain just for us. In this world which has left God, pain is already with us! But God can sometimes use that pain to help us. When a doctor cuts into the body to remove a diseased part, does this mean that the doctor is uncaring and unwise? Just the opposite is true. He cuts because he cares and wishes to heal. He knows that the pain of this cut is far better than suffering and death of the spreading disease.
In the same way, God sends judgments, even before the final judgment. Is this because He is uncaring? It is because He cares so much! As the prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 26:9, My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. The more God cares, the more He corrects us.
Read Hebrews 12:6 and10, because the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes everyone He accepts as a son. Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness.
Though, God’s “testimony” proving that “He has shown kindness. Acts of Apostles 14: 16–17 says, In the past, He let all nations go their own way. Yet He has not left Himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their season; He provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy. But there are times when crops do fail for a while. Jobs become hard to find. Families lack what they need. How are we to understand these in the light of God’s love? First, let us remember that the world God made was not a world of want, disease or death. He made it a place of plenty, health and life. Man’s sin and Satan’s rule through that sin, brought into the world the suffering we see. Even for God’s own people, this is a place of “groaning” Romans 8:22–23 says, We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
To reject the Giver of all life should mean the loss of all life. Yet the God of great mercy keeps on letting people live on His earth. He gives them many blessings. Matthew 5:45 says, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Read Romans 2:4–9, it says, Or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance and patience not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance? But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when His judgment will be revealed. God “will give to each person according to what he has done” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
When many blessings do not turn people back to God. He may try another way. He may use even the curses and sorrows that are already at work in the earth because of sin. An example of this was given by the prophet Jeremiah. His people enjoyed seasons of plenty. Yet these good times did not turn their hearts to God. Jeremiah 5:24–25, they do not say to themselves, Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest. Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
According to Matthew 5:22, 29–30 and Luke 12:4–5, the suffering in our earthly bodies is small compared to “the fire of hell” Therefore God’s feelings of mercy (compassions) may at times move Him even to use earthly pain to try to keep us from far greater eternal pain.
God does not have to make up special pain just for us. In this world which has left God, pain is already with us! But God can sometimes use that pain to help us. When a doctor cuts into the body to remove a diseased part, does this mean that the doctor is uncaring and unwise? Just the opposite is true. He cuts because he cares and wishes to heal. He knows that the pain of this cut is far better than suffering and death of the spreading disease.
In the same way, God sends judgments, even before the final judgment. Is this because He is uncaring? It is because He cares so much! As the prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 26:9, My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. The more God cares, the more He corrects us.
Read Hebrews 12:6 and10, because the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes everyone He accepts as a son. Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness.