August 25, 2014
A Just God
The video of the diabolical
beheading of American journalist James Foley by terrorist captors is
disturbing, but not unexpected in a culture that fails to respect life and
wants to eliminate those they consider heretics. In his rhetoric on the situation
President Obama said, “No just God would stand for what they [terrorists] did
yesterday, and for what they do every single day.” I find The President’s
sentiments disparage God. Evil is prevalent in the world and God allows it every
single day; which, according to Obama’s statement, implies that God is unjust. “He
is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God
who does no wrong, upright and just is he” (Deu 32:4 NIV).
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Gail;
-----Obama was just doing what man seems to do best: flapping his lips by his idle mind. No just God would allow the beheading of a journalist? Now, you can’t attribute the fibs of all journalism to a particular journalist, but you can lay at his door the failure to evaluate those fibs, their effects, and to elevate the public’s awareness of them and concern for the destruction they cause. Nor do the fibs of one particular journalist alone skew the world’s path into all its despair. But the fibs of all the journalists together mix into a toxin of doom to joy on earth and goodwill to man, even though journalists presume to fib for just those goals. Worse than persuading mankind to truck with destructive social philosophies, they persuade to deny the Creator the glory of what He created and the truth about its relation to Him. In so doing, they divert legions of souls onto the road of destruction.
-----I’m not saying I am any better than are they. My sins make tragic influences, too. But I’m not seeing the whittling off of such an one’s head with a six inch blade as being any more repugnant to a just God than is the ripping apart of an innocent’s body with a wire hook before it's had a chance to volitionally harm another soul, or to serve up even a little, white lie. Nor is the support for such to be done any less repugnant to a just God. Yet the same lip flapping "knower" of justice and God alike rallies to the defense of the abortion industry, the murderers of more than a million innocents per year by methods far more atrocious than Mr. Foley experienced. And no just God would stand for butchering off the head of a liar who has nothing to say for those fifty million tiny voices now raising pleas to God for their justice? Maybe he and Michael Brown can raise a toast of very, very, very dry wine to justice, then enjoy a couple stolen Swisher-Sweets while lamenting how rottenly they‘ve been treated.
-----We’re all not so good. That’s why the way to wisdom begun by the fear of God continues through the practice of humility. And humility does not presume what a just God will or will not stand for, lest it be talking about what we‘ve done, or not done, ourselves. Humility just tries to reason it’s next step to be a better step than its last, and fears God for taking care of His own stuff in His own ways.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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