Dids, please forgive me for not having the direct link to this enlightening post you made. IMO, there is more truth in these words, typed by you, than any post I've read on this forum in the three years I've been a member.
I challenge folks to read this and ponder what he proposes.
As crafted by Dids:
I insist God is always good, always answers yes, and always blesses. He is better than any man. His ways are better than ours. His thoughts are better than ours. This translates into a perfect Father who desires to always bless His children. His methods are beyond question and contain no darkness or evil whatsoever. Evil is not the tool of God whether directed or "allowed." He is above using evil to accomplish His will. He does not have to lower Himself to resorting to the devil's methods.
Gods methods are always lovely, always perfect, and always light. If the perfect ways and plans of God for our life are diminished... it is because we have limited Him by sin, doubt, and unbelief. In all this, the love, wisdom, perfection, and will of God is beyond any question.
That is the core of by belief, walk, and teaching.
So.
If I am wrong.. then the worst I can be accused of is suggesting that God is better than He actually is.
Listen to that again dear hearts...
If I am wrong... then the worst I can be accused of is suggesting that God is better than He actually is.
Do you think it is possible to invent a God who is better, more holy, more loving, more perfect in all His ways, more wise in His plans, and more righteous than the God that now sits on the Throne in Heaven?
So I say again, If I am wrong... then the worst I can be accused of is suggesting that God is better than He actually is.
I can live with taking that chance.
Lets look at the other side of the discussion.
I hear people suggesting that God resorts to darkness and evil(whether "allowed" or "directed".... I fail to see the difference) to accomplish His will. I hear that His will is not known and in some cases cannot be known.
I hear that God intentionally uses the suffering, pain, and even death of His own children in order to "glorify" Himself.
I hear that the suffering of Jesus was not sufficient to bring us perfected to the Father,and that we have to add a bit of our own suffering to make up the difference.
I hear people suggesting that God will save you or heal you... but not both. He will actually require you to choose one or the other. I hear people suggest God does not care about our temporal needs... even though Jesus spent His entire ministry doing just that. Healing, feeding, and caring for the temporal needs of people.
I hear people saying the the higher ways and higher thoughts of God can somehow be worse ways than man's. And I hear them say all this while at the same time insisting that God is too big to know and understand.
If they are wrong... then the worst they can be accused of is denying the word, denying the gospel, denying the work of Christ, denying the goodness of God, turning the goodness of God into an evil thing, ascribing evil to God, making God out to be a child abuser, glorifying in their own faithfulness at the expense of God, denying that Jesus has shown us the Father, rank doubt and unbelief, and ultimately denying that the name and Lordship of Jesus have any authority in heaven and on the earth....
If you design or imagine or invent a God that is better than our God who sits on the throne in heaven.. what would that say about our God who sits on the throne in heaven? Do our thoughts therefore eclipse the goodness of our God? Are our thoughts therefore "higher" than His? Can we in our measly (me-silly) little noodles out-do God in the imaginations of goodness and love toward us. What does that possibility do to these scriptures:
Ephesians 3:20
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
1 Corinthians 2:9
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
I am sometimes flabbergasted when I see these verses from Is 55 used to DIMINISH the higher ways and thoughts of God!!! As if higher thoughts and ways could ever be WORSE thoughts and ways!!
I submit that the goodness, love, and desires of God for our benefit are far above and beyond anything we can imagine. I am fully convinced that the only thing that prevents God from creating a heaven on earth in our lives is the tiny image of God we carry around inside us.
He wants to do so much for us. It pleases Him to bless us. He wants to! We do not let Him because of unbelief and doubt.
It is not possible for us to out-think God in the area of goodness. We will never imagine a God who is better than the God in heaven.
I can imagine some pretty good things!!!!
His thoughts and intentions toward me are better!
I challenge folks to read this and ponder what he proposes.
As crafted by Dids:
I insist God is always good, always answers yes, and always blesses. He is better than any man. His ways are better than ours. His thoughts are better than ours. This translates into a perfect Father who desires to always bless His children. His methods are beyond question and contain no darkness or evil whatsoever. Evil is not the tool of God whether directed or "allowed." He is above using evil to accomplish His will. He does not have to lower Himself to resorting to the devil's methods.
Gods methods are always lovely, always perfect, and always light. If the perfect ways and plans of God for our life are diminished... it is because we have limited Him by sin, doubt, and unbelief. In all this, the love, wisdom, perfection, and will of God is beyond any question.
That is the core of by belief, walk, and teaching.
So.
If I am wrong.. then the worst I can be accused of is suggesting that God is better than He actually is.
Listen to that again dear hearts...
If I am wrong... then the worst I can be accused of is suggesting that God is better than He actually is.
Do you think it is possible to invent a God who is better, more holy, more loving, more perfect in all His ways, more wise in His plans, and more righteous than the God that now sits on the Throne in Heaven?
So I say again, If I am wrong... then the worst I can be accused of is suggesting that God is better than He actually is.
I can live with taking that chance.
Lets look at the other side of the discussion.
I hear people suggesting that God resorts to darkness and evil(whether "allowed" or "directed".... I fail to see the difference) to accomplish His will. I hear that His will is not known and in some cases cannot be known.
I hear that God intentionally uses the suffering, pain, and even death of His own children in order to "glorify" Himself.
I hear that the suffering of Jesus was not sufficient to bring us perfected to the Father,and that we have to add a bit of our own suffering to make up the difference.
I hear people suggesting that God will save you or heal you... but not both. He will actually require you to choose one or the other. I hear people suggest God does not care about our temporal needs... even though Jesus spent His entire ministry doing just that. Healing, feeding, and caring for the temporal needs of people.
I hear people saying the the higher ways and higher thoughts of God can somehow be worse ways than man's. And I hear them say all this while at the same time insisting that God is too big to know and understand.
If they are wrong... then the worst they can be accused of is denying the word, denying the gospel, denying the work of Christ, denying the goodness of God, turning the goodness of God into an evil thing, ascribing evil to God, making God out to be a child abuser, glorifying in their own faithfulness at the expense of God, denying that Jesus has shown us the Father, rank doubt and unbelief, and ultimately denying that the name and Lordship of Jesus have any authority in heaven and on the earth....
If you design or imagine or invent a God that is better than our God who sits on the throne in heaven.. what would that say about our God who sits on the throne in heaven? Do our thoughts therefore eclipse the goodness of our God? Are our thoughts therefore "higher" than His? Can we in our measly (me-silly) little noodles out-do God in the imaginations of goodness and love toward us. What does that possibility do to these scriptures:
Ephesians 3:20
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
1 Corinthians 2:9
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
I am sometimes flabbergasted when I see these verses from Is 55 used to DIMINISH the higher ways and thoughts of God!!! As if higher thoughts and ways could ever be WORSE thoughts and ways!!
I submit that the goodness, love, and desires of God for our benefit are far above and beyond anything we can imagine. I am fully convinced that the only thing that prevents God from creating a heaven on earth in our lives is the tiny image of God we carry around inside us.
He wants to do so much for us. It pleases Him to bless us. He wants to! We do not let Him because of unbelief and doubt.
It is not possible for us to out-think God in the area of goodness. We will never imagine a God who is better than the God in heaven.
I can imagine some pretty good things!!!!
His thoughts and intentions toward me are better!
