It just amazes me how Christians will spout off that God is in control, until something happens that offends their sensibilities. Then God had nothing to do with it....
Indeed. But it's strange how that works, no?
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
Aye. Jesus said that the Father ordains the fall of every sparrow (i.e. everything, including the trivial). On another occasion he compares us to clay and God to the potter. What right does the lump have to determine how it is shaped? On its own it can do nothing. The absolute soverignty of God in His creation troubles some and comforts others. For some reason we no longer understand that it is not events that are evil, but rather it is the heart of man. A tornado (or a cancer, or a tsunami, or a heart attack) is a tool of God to accomplish His purposes. It is our choice how to react to them, to sin or to remain righteous.
It just amazes me how Christians will spout off that God is in control, until something happens that offends their sensibilities. Then God had nothing to do with it....
Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 9, question 27: "What do you understand by the providence of God?
"A. Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty, all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from his fatherly hand."
I guess I'm supposed to give that up, in favor of a God for whom the world has slipped from his control, who frets, who has his hand forced, plays the hand he was dealt, etc. For a world in which suffering "just happens" and has no meaning.
Lord's Day 9, Question 26: " Q. What do you believe when you say,'I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth'?
"A. That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and everything in them, who still upholds and rules them by his eternal counsel and providence, is my God and Father because of Christ his Son.
"I trust him so much that I do not doubt he will provide whatever I need for body and soul, and he will turn to my good whatever adversity he sends me in this sad world.
"He is able to do this because he is almighty God. He desires to do this because he is a faithful Father."
Amo 4:7 "I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
Amo 4:8 so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Amo 4:9 "I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Amo 4:10 "I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Amo 4:11 "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Judging by many of these posts, many still do not see the sovereignty of God to return to Him in this. We really have invented a god after our own image.
I really do not feel that the weather is ABOVE God’s control.
God is in control of ALL his creation, whether we like it or not.