"Theodicy, the attempt to rationalize why an all-good, all-knowing,
all-powerful God would allow such pain, is the hardest nut to crack for
religions that believe in that sort of deity."
In running into this term while watching everyday tragedies unfold before my eyes, I can't help but realize that we have lost complete and total sight of the promise we have, given to us by God, through Jesus. God never said this world would be peaceful or that it would be alright or that it would be fixed. Throughout his Word, God explicitly tells us that this world is IMPERFECT, BROKEN, FALLEN, DOOMED, and DESTINED FOR DESTRUCTION.
But we have become so enamored with it, that we would rather REPAIR it, or at least try to, as opposed to embracing God's Word and promise of a new heaven and a new earth.
COME LORD JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, December 17, 2012
The struggle...
The following excerpt from a devotional sent to me recently reminds me of one of my favorite posts:
"Persecuted Christians know they are in a fight. Every day they struggle. Not being conscious of a daily struggle may be sure sign that one is losing the battle of life... They should have struggles if they wish to please God. But so many Christians in the world today seem surprised at the language of struggle today."
Romans 5 :
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Francis Schaeffer once mentioned, “the god of personal peace and affluence,” where we don’t mind what goes on in the world so long as our space and prosperity is not affected?
This is certainly prominent in contemporary christian settings. It's almost as if the church of our age forgets the fundamental beliefs of the faith, the foundation of which is Christ, especially the Blessed Hope. We think, or rather, are sure that Jesus isn't coming back in our lifetime for some reason. So we adopt the newest acronyms the WORLD offers us, something like "YOLO", standing for "you only live once". Not only that, we avoid talking about things like the Apocalypse, the 2nd coming, the Rapture, the New Jerusalem, just because it makes us feel uncomfortable or because the book of revelation is "allegorical". We have so many reasons why we shouldn't live like the disciples admonished us to-like it is the last day- either because it's crazy or because it's impractical.
I pose the same question again, found in this post :
http://lastdaysdisciple.blogspot.com/2010/10/friendship-with-world-what.html
"Persecuted Christians know they are in a fight. Every day they struggle. Not being conscious of a daily struggle may be sure sign that one is losing the battle of life... They should have struggles if they wish to please God. But so many Christians in the world today seem surprised at the language of struggle today."
Romans 5 :
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Francis Schaeffer once mentioned, “the god of personal peace and affluence,” where we don’t mind what goes on in the world so long as our space and prosperity is not affected?
This is certainly prominent in contemporary christian settings. It's almost as if the church of our age forgets the fundamental beliefs of the faith, the foundation of which is Christ, especially the Blessed Hope. We think, or rather, are sure that Jesus isn't coming back in our lifetime for some reason. So we adopt the newest acronyms the WORLD offers us, something like "YOLO", standing for "you only live once". Not only that, we avoid talking about things like the Apocalypse, the 2nd coming, the Rapture, the New Jerusalem, just because it makes us feel uncomfortable or because the book of revelation is "allegorical". We have so many reasons why we shouldn't live like the disciples admonished us to-like it is the last day- either because it's crazy or because it's impractical.
I pose the same question again, found in this post :
http://lastdaysdisciple.blogspot.com/2010/10/friendship-with-world-what.html
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