Monday April 20, 2009 WHO IS SO WISE?
"Can you discover God's hidden secrets, or are you able to find the Almighty's limits? God's wisdom is higher than heaven. What can you do? It is deeper than the depths of hell. What can you know? It is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. If God comes along and imprisons someone and then calls a court into session, who can stop him? He knows who the scoundrels are. And when he sees sin, doesn't he pay attention to it? But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame. "If you want to set your heart right, then pray to him. If you're holding on to sin, put it far away, and don't let injustice live in your tent. Then you will be able to show your face without being ashamed, and you will be secure and unafraid. Then you will forget your misery and remember it like water that has flowed downstream. Then your life will be brighter than the noonday sun. The darkness in your life will become like morning. You will feel confident because there's hope, and you will look around and rest in safety. You will lie down with no one to frighten you, and many people will try to gain your favor." Job 11:7-19 Okay, Job lost everything - everything that is except his condemning wife and accusing friends. This passage of scripture is part of a discourse from one of Job's "friends." All of this is truth. All of this needs to be taken to heart. However, when said in the context of telling someone that the tragedies that happen in their life are a result of God's punishment on them - this is wrong. Granted, God does punish sin, but I honestly don't believe there is any sin we can commit that would cause God to take from us all the things that were taken away from Job. Rather, the evil one, the prince of darkness, the prince of this earth, the one who comes to steal, kill, and destroy takes these things from us. He hopes he can destroy our faith in God; as well as our joy. In Marie Chapian's book, His Thoughts Toward Me, the writing New Choices, describes for us the way God sees us; she writes as though God is talking to us: "I have covered you with a holy robe of righteousness. You were the clothing of salvation. (Do you know what that means?) Right now, today, at this moment, it means you are saved from the agonized cry of despair. I have seen all that has happened in your life. I have seen every person who has walked across your days. I know. I see. I listen. I AM. Right now, at this moment, I AM holding you, loving you, comforting you. My voice is softly singing to you and it is I who lifts your chin, urging you to take the garland of beauty I give you for the ashes you have been wearing. Take the perfume of joy instead of the bleak and futile stains of sorrow. Wear praise like a golden robe and the heavy, burdened and failing spirit will flee from you." What else is there to say? I've felt the self-persecuting words Satan has to offer, I've lived with condemnation.I'd rather live knowing that God loves and accepts me/you - warts and all! ******************************************* O. Addison Gethers e-mail address : [email protected] or [email protected] window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
