i am not trying to start an arguement of anykind, but i think something needs to be realised and admitted in church people today.
say a man dies, and he was a good man, he had been preaching, he had done great things, he seemed so good and maybe he was.
this is still no reason to say for sure that it was gods will for him to die. it could have been gods will, but we cannot judge it on these evidences alone.
just becuase your a good person, just becuase you preach and save souls, just because you love god, does not mean you didnt make a mistake and allow yourself to go through something that was not the will of god. many great men, women, preachers etc, have died or fallen, when it was never the will of god for them to. and even though they were great in some areas, they were still wrong in others.
i have learned through experience, that sometimes the word of god will state a truth, yet contradict the life of someone who you greatly esteem and love.
and you must trust god, and be faithful to him enough, to say, "ok god, i love them, i respect them, but your word says they are wrong, so yes lord...... i will beleive you over even those i love."
sometimes the greatest tests, are when the men you esteemed great, or love dearly fall, ort turn and attack you.
i think everyone will go through a season, when someone they looked up to, will fall in some way. and god will use that, to test you, "who do you believe? man, or me?"
like jesus
Mary, the mother of Jesus, the servant of God, the one whom god highly favored. was the same mary that later in jesus' life came searching for him with his own brothers, in order to lay hold on him and take him home, becuase it seemed like Jesus had gone fanatical and way off the deep end. but jesus had to know the truth of god, and trust it enough to trust god, over anyone or anything else. even if it meant saying, mom i love you, your my mother, but your still wrong........
i am not trying to attack you, but do not beleive it was gods will for your father to die, simply on the basis of him being a good man or any other reason, if the word clearly says it wasnt. my own father is a great man, such a great heart of love and compassion and hardwork, but in some areas, i know hes wrong, and no matter how good he is in any issue, it doesnt justify it. and it hurts to tell him that, or acknowledge that, but i must.... becuase i serve god, and not man.
people try to excuse sin or unbeleif and many other things becuase the great disciples sinned, fell, or doubted etc.
but it doesnt matter how great those men were or what they did, they were still wrong according to the word of god.
let god be true, and EVERY MAN be a liar.
i say this in love and not in hate or pride.
but just becuase your father was a good man, does not mean it was the will of god for him to die from cancer or for anyone to die from cancer. your father could have still been wrong, he could have doubted or anything that can cause things that werent gods will to happen to him.
i am struggling to get my point across clearly.....
do not justify the fall or defeat or death of a man, with your love for him, your esteem for him, you trust in him, or your pride in him.
i sometimes have trouble telling the truth of the word becuase of this very problem.
for example
one time i was talking to a close friend about smoking, and how it wasnt the will of god. and the person said "well my grandmother, who i love, a great woman of god, who loved god with all her heart, smoked and told me it was ok to smoke."
(lets not begin to discuss that issue, im simply using this as an example)
and i did not want to say "well your grandmother was wrong" that would seem harsh, and it seemed like it would hurt him. as i would not want to see my loved ones being wrong either, becuase i love them and want them to be right and it would seem like i somehow betrayed them in someway.
but i had to tell him the truth, even if it hurt him, or meant saying his loved ones were wrong. and when i told him that, i could see that he didnt expect me to say that, and it kind of hurt him, to see that maybe his grandmother that he loved dearly, and respected, could still be wrong.
just be careful not to change the truth, and the power of god, becuase of your love or respect for anyone else.
listen, i love you as a brother or sister in christ and i respect you.
but if jesus said we could overcome all sickness and disease and death, then that is true, no matter who is sick or diseased or dead.
i was once talking to a person about the fact you cant just beleive in god without following him and expect to go to heavon. and she turned and asked me "well do you think im going to heavon then?"
and she did not expect me to be so bold as to keep with my argument after that.....it wasnt easy, but i could not lie and forsake what i know to be true, simply to make her happy or to make peace. i had to tell her the truth, and yeah it was hard and it hurt, and it shocked and hurt her, and made me look like a proud hateful person, but i knew what was true, because i knew the word, and i knew her life at the present time.
sometimes we simply avoid the truth, because it means something we love is wrong, or someone we love is wrong, and we think that if we give in to that truth, it is betraying that loved one or betraying something, but it isnt...it really isnt.
love you.
please dont be angry at me.
