Saturday, February 6, 2021

Ps 9 12 For he who avenges blood remembers;
he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted."
We live in a time where God is described as a loving God. God is the universal Father who understands all people. This is because with the advancement of science and the increase in the quality of life we depend upon the medicine in place of spending time to know God by His word. Man in his natural understanding is an extremist. So his description of Gods universal care swings to the other side where God forces men to be good. So God becomes the christians karma enforcer.
When we miss understand who God is then we fail to understand ourselves. As we are self deceived we increase our own pain. Pain is a result of miss interpreting our own powers. We made to respond to the events of this world like God responds to them. Gods word does not just teach us how to live in this world but it transforms our minds so that we are intimately familiar with Gods will and our self understanding.The word is more than a rule but it is creative. }He spoke and it came to be." So all things that are part of all events are spoken by God and upheld by His word.
If God simply forgets all the wrongs that in this world then we could say that God is always accepting of all people as the definition of His love. But if God simply forgets about abuse in order to be accepting then He would not act for the sake of the victim. But at the same time we swing to the opposite side then God must act swiftly to right all wrongs and repay the abuser. But even the repayment will not satisfy those who have been harmed. It may satisfy our sense of justice but we cannot redeem the suffering or the injury. What we really need is enough protection and power to create universal action that prevents harm.
We must understand that when man sinned , he brought a curse upon the earth and all men. We must understand that the smallest sin would be the same as a mass murder. Because sin cannot be contained by mankind. Adams sin of simply eating a piece of fruit grows into the terrible judgement of the flood to curb the unbridled spread of destruction on the earth because of sin.There is only one person who can contain evil. It is God.We must understand that one small sin made it dangerous for two people developing a relationship. Because the only way that sin could spread was in relationships.
It is hard for people to see that the negativity of Gods curses are given to address the needs in man. People who live in a pragmatic society speak of the christian life as a balance between sorrow and happiness. If we are sorrowful then we need happy things to address our sorrow. But in the Jewish culture expressing feelings was the way that they dealt with sorrow. So they would rip their robes and sit with sackcloth and ashes covering their head. In other words the pain would be addressed by an action that everyone viewed. This is how God addresses the struggle with our pain. He pronounces a curse upon wickedness as an expression of His eternal wrath. Some times we need to go negative in our private expressions before God. I will further explain.

 

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