"Your eyes are too pure to look on evil
You cannot tolerate wrong doing.
why then do You tolerate the treacherous?
why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?"
theodicy. the "why" we are all asking; why God allows evil in the world.
God is just. God is soveriegn. God is love.
if there is any evil i will accept, it is the "evil" that comes permitted by a just & loving God.
when we go through real tough stuff, where do we turn? to others, to God. when we are broken hearted, God is so close to us (ps. 34:18). we glorify Him with our desperate need for Him (hosea 5:15-6:3) and it isn't very often we are desperate when we are "satisfied" or "happy".
i believe the Lord is all powerful, all knowing & all good. He has allowed evil to come in, so we can cry out for His saving arms & find rest.
He foreknows & predestines. He knows the best possible way for us to come so close to Him. how we expect to understand His ways is beyond me. yet still we try to figure out why & how, when He isn't necessarily about giving out those answers.
i heard a wise man once say, "you get a lot closer to God from wrestling with the question rather than settling for an answer." our God is sovereign- adonai Jehovah.
i remember this one day, i was having the "worst day ever" & i just was angrily praying for God to fix me. He ended up placing hosea in front of me.
"in their misery, they will earnestly seek Me. come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but He will heal us; He has injured us but He will bind up our wounds...as surely as the sun rises, He will appear."
it is all over the bible. He is right there, with the first aid kit, ready to bind our wounds. He is discipling those who He loves (heb. 12:6). sure, i don't get it, but i also don't get how a low-life sinner like me can be able to have not only a second chance but eternal life with the Most High, the Holy God of the universe.
praise Him. He shows us pain but allows us to really experience peace & a harvest of righteousness (heb. 12:11). i don't get it, but was i supposed to?
-this is a paper i wrote for my class this past week about my "theodicy".
1 comment:
wow.... thats deep!
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