I'm reading a book Radical written by David Platt the leader of The Church at Brook Hill in Birmingham, AL. As I have said before I see no evidence that God intervenes in our lives today. And as I have said before it appears to me people with things going well think God is blessing them while people without things going well do not see God cursing them. Apparently Christians believe God has and is intervening in their lives when things are going not involved in there lives when things are not going so well. God gets all the credit and they get all the blame. Perfect.
In this book the author tells of a woman with things going well goes to Guatemala following Jesus' instructions to go and make disciples. She said she went out of obedience not because she was interested in missions or any special interest in the people of Guatemala. After spending a week around children who eat a small cup of porridge a day she returned to Birmingham and asks why God has blessed her when others have so little. She says God has blessed her for His glory. He blessed her so the nations will know Him and see His glory. He has lots of examples just like this one.
The author then tells a story about driving through what used to be a thriving community but is now a land ravaged by twenty years of civil war. He is with a man who has had thousands of his brothers and sisters in Christ murdered by a militant Muslim regime. Imagine, all those prayers for safety and security went unanswered or God looked down and said no, die.
Why didn't God bless those thousands of people who are now dead, murdered? Could it be they were killed because a group of Muslims, exercising their God given right to free will wanted to kill them? Could it be that God has not blessed that woman but she was good in business and was successful?
So far I am staying with God does not intervene in our lives today for better or worse.
Thanks, John Jenkins
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