HAHAHA Though I posted this last week. But I didn't. :)
I managed to wait a week to post again but it will be ok. I sadly have not been keeping up with my daily reading. Most of this week has been waking up going to work coming home back to sleep then back awake and back to work...literally. McDonald's requires 9 hours between shift and that is what I was given Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday. So needless to say I caught up on some shut eye today.
Started reading my Sunday school lesson today and I'm liking it. Still on the 'The 10 lies about God'. I have never thought of this from any other perspective then God is in control of everything. However, my lesson mentions a different point of view, that is incorrect by the way. It mentions that God just lets the "natural" disaster happen. I say that with quotation marks because if God is the origin of these disasters then how are they natural. Anyways, this perspective states there are certain laws of the natural order that are happening and God is hands-off and had nothing to do with it. It was just a by product of nature. For example, the faults of the earth rubbing together to create an earthquake is solely a happening of nature. But I know that God is in control. Nothing happens with out His permission. God personally creates these incidents and he uses secondary means, like the faults of earth and the earthquake.
The lessons mentions people that say God is hands off in these instances and that God has nothing to do with them but then agree they are acts of God or thank God for the timing of them. Kind of contradicting yourself there pal!
There are several verses of Scripture that directly states God is in control of nature. Now if he is in control of nature how can it not be by His doing? But some people asks 'Why do these things happen?' We look to Genesis 3:17-18 "And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field." The ground was cursed because of the acts of man. Makes sense, why should sinful man be allowed to live in a world that is perfect and good. The nature around us mimics our personal nature. Go figure. But just like we are redeemed in Christ and one day will live joyfully, so will nature be set free from it's curse. Romans 8:19-21 "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God."
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