Originally posted by Brother Gonzalez
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Indeed, this is exactly the same as Job – well not exactly the same, because God, magnificently in His Wisdom and in His trust of the Faithful Job, did absolutely nothing – God merely sat by and allowed Satan to work his evil on Job. God, knowing everything, knew that Job would not falter in his faith.
We must now move to the New Testament to see the consistency of God – particularly John 9:1-3
Joh:9:1: And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
Joh:9:2: And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh:9:3: Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
To understand through the Book of Job and these verses (as best we mortals may) the Mind of God, we should take an earthly example that combines these ideas – a parable, if you will…
Let us say that one night you dream a dream and in that dream an angel comes nigh unto you and vouchsafes to you that you are favored by God Who has chosen you to fulfil a Holy Mission. The angel adds that the details of the mission will become apparent. The angel departs through the ceiling and you are left in awe…
The next morning, a motorcade pulls up outside your door and Secret Service operative secure the area. You look on amazed as the rear door of a large limo opens and out steps first Pastor Zeke, and then The President Himself!
The two walk up to your house, enter through the door and stand in the living area… Zeke introduces you to the President and explains that Mr Trump wants you to organize the building of that wall. Mr Trump has placed in your bank account $1,000,000 for each mile of wall. He has spoken with fixers, contractors, and PR companies and all that is required is that you appear once a month on Fox News to give a positive progress report.
What do you say?
I suspect that, once you have recovered your powers of speech, you will agree without further questions.
And so it is.
Your apparent sufferings are no more that God using you as a advert for Himself. God is holding you up as a paragon of a True Christian. He is demonstrating His Power through you. God knows the outcome of what, at the moment, appears to be serious problems. Do you trust God?
Brother Gonzales, you are blessed. You have no idea each one of us has prayed that God will inflict us with some curse, that we might serve Him directly. In prayers, I have offered to be struck deaf – and not just because of Mrs Bathfire’s constant mindless chatter: Brother Hutchins once told me that he was quite willing for God to cause him to lose his sense of taste because of Mrs Hutchin’s inability in the kitchen. Even Pastor Rune Enoe said that he was working vigorously, three times a day, on a way of sending himself blind, in the hopes that God would take the hint and strike him blind as our man in John 9.
All this so we might serve God better – All this so we could be closer to Jesus… we are willing to be examples of Him.
YET IT IS YOU HE HAS CHOSEN! (and not any of us) Praise the Lord!
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