Which is bigger – your God or your problems?

WND ^ | February 20, 2010 | Greg Laurie

[bogusname]

"Have a nice day" is a classic Americanism. Many of our day-to-day interactions end with, "Have a nice day." Often the people saying it don't really mean it, but they say it anyway. So what does it mean to have a nice day? I would guess it is to have a day that is, well, nice – a day that is void of any problems, a day in which there is no sickness, no conflict and no hardship. It is a day that is basically nice.

That is how some people like to think of God. They imagine him almost as a Santa Claus-like figure smiling benignly from heaven who wants us all to be healthy and wealthy and fat and sassy. But that is not the picture the Bible gives us of God. I am not suggesting that God cannot bless us with health or even a certain degree of wealth. Nor am I suggesting that God will not bring happiness into our lives, because he will. But it is not God's objective simply for us to have a nice day.

[bogusname]

God has it all under control.

[donmeaker]

your G-d is my problem.

[bogusname]

Wow- They don’t get any bigger than that.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Good answer

[bogusname]

Thanks and GBY

[HiTech RedNeck]

applause

[HiTech RedNeck]

Have a God filled day. You too.

[donmeaker]

Blessed be.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If you let God do it, you will be.

[Berlin_Freeper]

If my problems were bigger than God... I can’t even imagine that. God is pretty big.

But if I had a problem bigger than God, I think that would be God’s problem not mine.

[KDD]

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don’t let the uncertainty turn you around
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you’ll never know

Jackson Browne
Late For The Sky

THE LATE SHOW

Everyone I’ve ever known has wished me well
Anyway that’s how it seems, it’s hard to tell
Maybe people only ask you how you’re doing
‘Cause that’s easier than letting on how little they could care
But when you know that you’ve got a real friend somewhere
Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.....

[bogusname]

:-) Thanks

[RU88]

Thanks for the post. As someone who has gone through a fairly rough patch lately with the deaths of both my wife and mother I fully understand how important faith is to ones life. I'm convinced that God has a purpose for each and every one of us and that there is nothing more noble on this earth than to do his will. Thanks again.

[bogusname]

I’m with you 100%. God Bless You.

[HarleyD]

Hmmmmm.....couldn't I pray to learn by the calamity of others? :O)

Seriously, Job is an excellent study in man's relationship to God and God's relationship to man. Job was ever faithful through all the hardship. God was ever caring through all the inflictions. As righteous as Job was, in the end Job even learned more of God:

Job 42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

[LadyPilgrim]

Thank you HD, I love that.

[GUNGAGALUNGA]

Even Nancy Pelosi Reid and Obama? What is there purpose? Kind of like cockroaches! Just wont go away