[photo-3d] Re: merciful God

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Mike,

Honor Heights park is a pretty park. 

My Ex wife's family is from Muskogee.  I have only been to the park in 
the winter and summer, but never spring.  Do you happen to know the 
Prides (Dorothy (and HC who passed away) in Muskogee or Mike and Jan 
in Tulsa?  I still love them (and my EX) dearly, but now that I am 
happily remarried I have not had hardly any contact with them.

> God heals all who ask Him for healing.  

I am a very devout Christian, and just had to respond for those who 
have not experienced the healing you, perhaps inadvertantly, implied 
that God -always- provides. Jesus did not and God does not heal 
everyone.  Neither An RBT S1 nor a Digital camera solves every problem 
(I had to fit 3D in there somehwere:).  It is true that Jesus had 
compasion and healed many people, but he also had to sleep and went 
away sometimes to avoid the crowds.  He did not then and does not now 
heal everyone there was/is to heal, and not even everyone that asks to 
be healed.  Just look around.  He did not just come to heal, but to 
facilitate our return to an actual real person-to-person relationship 
with God Himself (to reconcile us to Himself).  

Bad things happen to good people.  The scriptures you've quoted are 
still true, but so is "In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the 
day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, 
so that man may not find out anything that will be after him."  
Ecclesiates 7:14.  If God were to answer every prayer with a "yes" 
instead of a "No" or "Not yet", would we really love God or would we 
love what he does for us?  

It is like the Child who has a step parent who doesn't give the child 
everything he wants even if he can, as compared to the parent who has 
one day a week visitation and gives the kid everything he wants.  Who 
truly loves the Child more?  

"He is not the slave of the stars but their Maker. Is it not said in 
all the old stories that He is not a tame lion."
                                        C.S.Lewis, The Last Battle

In response to human suffering, some deny the existance of God, and 
assert that their limited mind can know that there is no God. Others 
acknowledge that their minds are limited but resort to agnosticism to 
justify ignoring God's still small voice which calls to us 
despite/through the suffering and through love and the beauty of His 
creation or even a well mounted stereo pair.  

I know I'm not going to change anyone's religion through this post, 
but I hope I have helped those who have not experienced God's healing 
YET.  You will.  He does love you more than you can comprehend, and 
his healing is already underway, though it may not be the kind of 
healing you think you need.

Yes, God/Jesus is the great physician, but sometimes our pain is the 
cure that truely purges the pride from within and reminds us that it 
is God who has made us and not we ourselves.  

There is the story of the missionary whose 4 year old son had fallen 
and made a gash in his neck.  Without anesthesia, the missionary and 
several tribesmen had to hold down the screeming child to enable his 
father to stitch up his neck and save his life.  The son was not 
capable of comprehending the depth of love his father was 
demonstrating.
 
> Hallelujah!  

Yes Hallelujah.  May the Spirit of the risen Christ touch your hearts 
through the sacred and the secular, the majestic and the mundane.

> God bless you this Easter and always.

He is Risen!

Grant


 

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