Notice on a slight format change:

Except for July 2012, these are mostly a collection of current devotional notes.

July 2012 is a re-write of old quiet times. My second child was born Nov 11, 1987 with multiple birth defects. I've been re-reading my QT notes from that time in my life, and have included them here. They cover the time before the birth and the few years immediately after the birth. They are tagged "historical." I added new insights and labeled them: ((TODAY, dd mmm yy)).

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

QT 29 Aug 12, We can't reject God's rule and then expect God to rule over evil in this world


John 9:1-5 (NIV) As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

3 "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

NOTE: Everyone looks for someone or something to blame when things do not go the way we want. Who doesn't sin and deserve something bad to happen? We all do. But the imperfections of life are result of a fallen world that rejected God's rule. We feel we have the right to reject God's rule over our life, but we bristle at the notion that God won't intervene to stop evil or protect the "innocent" from something bad happening. We can't have it both ways. If we will not repent and let God rule, we can't also demand that he show his goodness to us in this world. Our fallen world is a direct result of our rejection of God's rule. We have one chance to experience life with God ruling, and that will come during the millennial age where God will rule and the world will work as God always intended it. Our only hope for living in that age is to repent, or we will perish and never experience life as God intended. It is not too late to repent, but someday soon (it is sooner every day), it will be too late.

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