As Helen S Rice wisely puts it...
'... whenever we are troubled and when everything goes wrong, It is just God working in us to make our spirits strong".
My bedtime prayers have turned towards reflections of late, here's one of them that's been going through my head.
When I read the old testament stories, I feel envious of the early people of God. They were so very blessed to have God literally manifest himself in so many ways. God showed himself, showed his works, made himself heard and showed his mercy so often to these people - of and on he sent destruction upon those who did not obey, destroyed cities and spared those who deserved it. The bible continues on with death and mercy, warnings, threats then mercy, of prophets pleading with the people, of holy men and prophets who failed God too because they were merely human, of people not heeding the warnings ..throughout the years before Christ.
It's as if God kept on trying to control and direct his people (to save them) to gain their obedience through the generations but STILL could not. Are we as stubborn as the early people of Israel? Would we behave the same way, if God decided to manifest himself the same way today?. Would He be disappointed too?
Thus finally I believe, He decided on a New and different plan to keep us true to himself. The onus now falls upon ourselves to follow by the example of one Man.
The Good News as the New Testament is called, is really that, there's a feeling of Hope when you read these new Chapters after reading the Old.
I agree that God has some good reason behind everything bad happening to us...
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if my last comment posted but I wanted to say that God is with us as much as He was with the people of the Old Testament. It is just that we become so distracted with life nowadays we often don't see Him in everything... although we know He is. We just need to slow down and remember Him. Lucky He is patient ;)
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Julieanne
I see that too , I prefer the New Testament too , God did not give up on us.
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We all are God's children. What else than this to keep our spirit up!!
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hugs
blessings!
There is a reason for everything, good, bad and ugly. We would be just as stubborn in Moses time as we are now, I believe. Naturally, there would be many that would be obedient. Humanity is humanity. Blessings dear one.
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