Daniel 1:2
THE LORD ALLOWED THAT JOAKIM FELL
INTO THE HANDS OF NABUCHODONOSOR.
DANIEL 1:2
What is the use of having an almighty God who will allow the king of His people fall before another king?
What is the use of having an almighty God who allows pain in our lives?
I know you will be tempted to point out the fact that Joakim was living in sin, so he deserved it.
Fine, BUT what about Daniel?
He loved God!
Daniel was young when taken as a slave into Babylon. Take out a history book and read about Babylon the Great. Not necessarily the place I would like my own teenagers to grow up in.
Daniel loved God before he was taken as a slave. I can see it by the way he reacts to "social" preassure. He inmediatly decides to talk about the food he cannot eat!
Try to picture that. Young, a slave, taken far from your family and friends, and standing up boldly and saying "I cannot eat this, for it is against the law of my God"
WOW. I am a mother of 3 teenagers. How I have worried as I have seen them allowing things that are potentionally dangerous into their lives. What did his parents do right?
"Bea, Daniel was from Juda, remember? the people of God?"
Yeah, but you should read Jeremiah- sin was all about! Dear Daniel grew up in one of the dark ages of the church!!!! What a surprise! How dark? Just to give you an idea: the pastors and prophets were practicing prostitution and sorcery- that bad.
The almighty God who allows a young man, that loves Him, to grow up in a dark age of the church.
What kind of God is that?
The almighty God who allows a young man, that reads his Bible, to be taken as a slave into a horribly wordly nation.
What kind of God is that?
Lets make it worse.
Have you ever thought of the fact that the years that preceeded the fall of Joakim, were hard years?
That means that Daniel had to face years of political tension. Political tension...shouldn´t God have prevented that from happening in Daniel´s life? What kind of God do we have?
Can we make it any worse?
Read Lamentations. Years of hunger, and killings, war left nothing of a once prosperous and mighty kingdom. Daniel saw all that. He didn´t have a T.V. and a hamburguer. He had war. He must have been very young because he wasn´t in the army. He should have been playing ball- he was hiding from a bomb. What kind of God allows that? That the pastors, prophets and kings had gone into sin, was not his fault and he could do nothing to change them...Why God? Why him?
I am a mother. I fought so much to protect my kids from these sort of things. Why God? Why do you allow pain in our lives?...even if we are seeking you and trying to live right? Why do you allow us to be surrounded by sin?
Then we hit the answer. And it offends us so much.
God respects human will.
He respected Hitler´s will. OUCH.
He respects presidents' will to be corrupt.
He respects husbands' will to sin against their wives.
He respects wives' will to sin agains their families.
He respects children's will to sin against their parents.
EVENTHOUGH GOD KNOWS that sin brings forth death.
What sort of God is this?
What sort of God allows us to sin, eventhough He knows our decision will bring death into our lives and of innocent ones around?
This my friend, is exactly what makes God...God.
This my friend, is the difference between a fairy and God.
The Almighty One, respecting MY decision.
The God who allows ME to decide, and who does not stop the consequences of MY decision.
The God that allows.
What kind of God do we serve?
A God...that is God.
INTO THE HANDS OF NABUCHODONOSOR.
DANIEL 1:2
What is the use of having an almighty God who will allow the king of His people fall before another king?
What is the use of having an almighty God who allows pain in our lives?
I know you will be tempted to point out the fact that Joakim was living in sin, so he deserved it.
Fine, BUT what about Daniel?
He loved God!
Daniel was young when taken as a slave into Babylon. Take out a history book and read about Babylon the Great. Not necessarily the place I would like my own teenagers to grow up in.
Daniel loved God before he was taken as a slave. I can see it by the way he reacts to "social" preassure. He inmediatly decides to talk about the food he cannot eat!
Try to picture that. Young, a slave, taken far from your family and friends, and standing up boldly and saying "I cannot eat this, for it is against the law of my God"
WOW. I am a mother of 3 teenagers. How I have worried as I have seen them allowing things that are potentionally dangerous into their lives. What did his parents do right?
"Bea, Daniel was from Juda, remember? the people of God?"
Yeah, but you should read Jeremiah- sin was all about! Dear Daniel grew up in one of the dark ages of the church!!!! What a surprise! How dark? Just to give you an idea: the pastors and prophets were practicing prostitution and sorcery- that bad.
The almighty God who allows a young man, that loves Him, to grow up in a dark age of the church.
What kind of God is that?
The almighty God who allows a young man, that reads his Bible, to be taken as a slave into a horribly wordly nation.
What kind of God is that?
Lets make it worse.
Have you ever thought of the fact that the years that preceeded the fall of Joakim, were hard years?
That means that Daniel had to face years of political tension. Political tension...shouldn´t God have prevented that from happening in Daniel´s life? What kind of God do we have?
Can we make it any worse?
Read Lamentations. Years of hunger, and killings, war left nothing of a once prosperous and mighty kingdom. Daniel saw all that. He didn´t have a T.V. and a hamburguer. He had war. He must have been very young because he wasn´t in the army. He should have been playing ball- he was hiding from a bomb. What kind of God allows that? That the pastors, prophets and kings had gone into sin, was not his fault and he could do nothing to change them...Why God? Why him?
I am a mother. I fought so much to protect my kids from these sort of things. Why God? Why do you allow pain in our lives?...even if we are seeking you and trying to live right? Why do you allow us to be surrounded by sin?
Then we hit the answer. And it offends us so much.
God respects human will.
He respected Hitler´s will. OUCH.
He respects presidents' will to be corrupt.
He respects husbands' will to sin against their wives.
He respects wives' will to sin agains their families.
He respects children's will to sin against their parents.
EVENTHOUGH GOD KNOWS that sin brings forth death.
What sort of God is this?
What sort of God allows us to sin, eventhough He knows our decision will bring death into our lives and of innocent ones around?
This my friend, is exactly what makes God...God.
This my friend, is the difference between a fairy and God.
The Almighty One, respecting MY decision.
The God who allows ME to decide, and who does not stop the consequences of MY decision.
The God that allows.
What kind of God do we serve?
A God...that is God.
posted by thisfool @ 1:28 AM
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