At times I think, "Wouldn't
it be nice to live in an ideal world - a place where everybody loves me, where
everybody drives in a sane manner, where crime is non-existent, where there is
no discrimination, where no one suffers with disease, mental illness, sorrow,
or loss of any kind. Where no one belittles, berates, bullies and besmirches
others." I have found that focusing on how I think things should be -
ideal worship - brings on frustration and discontent. Then God reminds me that
this ain't heaven.
This world is full of sin and the
ugly, painful consequences of it. Here
is the question of the day, "If God is a good God, why does He allow all
of this?" Why can't we have the ideal?
God did something different for
mankind than He did for the animal world, He gave mankind a choice. Adam and Eve chose not to obey God, thus sin
entered the world - with its consequences and ugliness. God still gives each of us a choice. We can choose Him or not. If we choose Him,
He gives us the ability to live and thrive in this sinful world.
But why do this in the first
place? Because this way God can exercise
His grace. He could prove how limitless
His love is toward us - Jesus died for us, not because we are worthy, but
because we need a Savior. Plus, we can appreciate Him more.
If we have chosen Christ, one day
we will live in an ideal place - heaven. In the meantime:
"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians
6:11-12.
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