BACK TO BASICS AND OUR FALL TO CHAOS
“‘Sir,’ Gideon replied, ‘if the L ord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The Lord brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.” (Judges 6:13 NLT)
If the Lord is with us, then why do I have this disease? If the Lord is with us, then why do I suffer financially? If the Lord is with us, then why is there so much chaos and pain in this world? What is your personal why? And do you ever hope to find an answer? Or better yet, are you even allowed to ask why? Haven’t some of us been taught that we should never ask why, but to humbly accept God’s will for our lives? But what is God’s will for our lives? We’ll find the answer to that question only in Jesus Christ. We won’t find it in religion. We won’t find it through the opinions or reason of people. To understand the will of God for us we have to know who Jesus is, and what He accomplished for us with His death and resurrection. If not, we won’t have a sure foundation for our faith, we’ll be thrown around by every new religious doctrine, and we’ll never experience the victory that already belongs to us through our union with Him. read more...