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 Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:26 am
I don't know who all these small gods are. The gods that do the math (arguably not even the right math) and decide there isn't enough to go around. But I know that watching someone suffer when there exists a cure or even just a pallative is wrong.
I have watched time and again when my God has blessed way too mathematically little and made it enough and more than enough. My God blessed 5 loaves and 3 fishes and fed 5000 with baskets of leftovers. My God rained manna from heaven on His children in the wilderness.
My God is a god of justice and that means social justice too. My God loves the poor, the homeless, the orphan and the unwed mother. My God suffers with them, hunger and pain, illness and revilement.
I know what the right thing to do is and my God is faithful, He will bless me and my family for doing the right thing in His name. He has and will bless nations for the sake of His children who dare to step out in faith and do what they know is right. He is faithful and will not repay good works with bad.
So I don't know all these small gods for whom enough money and comfort is never enough. I don't know these small gods who live in fear and who put a spirit of fear in their followers. Because my God is big enough to turn too little into more than I can imagine. I only have to look at my own life to know this. My God told me to fear not. His love surrounds me and I am free to help my brothers and sisters and my sisters children knowing that my God is faithful and will take care of me and them.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:29 pm
The Bible covers this. See, what drew me to God was the operations I had on my eye. These were very painful and I still have some emotional scarring from them today. But my relationship with God is far more valuable than my selfish mind.
God does draw people to Him with pain and suffering sometimes. And sometimes there is little to calm the pain. That is there trial, and it is there cross to bare. However, God also calls us to be messengers of hope and comfort for people like these. And if they don't know God already, He calls us to minister.
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