“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” Romans 11:33 If God Is So Good, What’s Up With All The Bad Stuff In This World? (Part 4 of 6) Last time we decided that what we consider to be our “need to know” isn’t really a need at all. …
DOES GOD ALWAYS GET HIS WAY?
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” (Matthew 23:37) If God Is So Good, What’s Up With All The Bad Stuff In …
WHAT DOES GOD EVEN KNOW ABOUT SUFFERING?
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:3-4 If God Is So Good, …
Friends
In my wilderness, as in the Hebrew Exodus, manna appeared in the morning, a pillar of cloud rose up to shade me in the sweltering afternoon desert sun, and a pillar of fire warmed me and lighted my way through the darkness of night. Literally “manna” means, “What is this?” The first manna recipients wondered …
The Will To Hope
In the dark I began to realize that Jesus was nearby, furiously digging through the rubble of my caved-in life, slaughtering my adversaries. It seemed that as I worshipped he poured his refreshing Spirit into my darkness and gave me the will to hope for a better day. God hides, and is found, precisely in …
