From: benjipark
Date: Mon Sep 22 21:45:56 MST 2003
Subject: Faith in Fallenness

I often wonder about things. One of the biggest ones is why did God figure out that brokenness, sin pain, suffering, death, (but more importantly) redemption, grace, mercy, and healing; was the way that we as human have to come to God if we are to be in relationship with him? For a while I really could not reconcile this in my heart. If God really is "God" and is the "unmoved mover" the "creator" the all-powerful all-knowing being that we are to belive him to be, then why does he allow us such pain. Furthermore being outside of time he would know the choices that Adam would make and the full consequences of that, in essence an accomplice to Adams sin. But even then I am looking at things wrong, God the all-powerful must have orchestrated the circumstances leading to Adam's sin. Was Adam's sin Gods fault or was it Gods? Given that Adam had free will it is ultimately Adams responsibility that he sinned. But I'm not here to argue predestination Vs. freewill. I'm simply making the point that God knew exactly what he was getting us into when he created us. So from the onset he created us to be fallen, broken, suffering, sinners. He also created us to receive redemption, grace, mercy, and healing. He did this to us purposely. The question of why still remains. The answer that I have found that gives me solace is that God knows best and has chosen what is best for us. Of course since I have limited wisdom and vision, I'm going to just have to trust that God did know exactly what he was getting us into because it was the best thing for us. If experience is the best of all teachers, that must be because we learn the lesson most vividly from having gone through the fire, literally in my case. I can put my hand near fire and feel it getting hotter and extrapolate that slight pain into something that I would want to avoid. I don't really know how good it feels to be in a state of not being burned though, until I've experience bad burns (melted plastic). I can look back at the excruciating pain and say that my state of normalcy is bliss compared to the pain I went through. Then to take that a step further and experiencing pleasure is so much sweeter. Now I am aware that this is not an accurate analogy to compare with relating to God but I think you can see my point. How much sweeter is heaven going to be for me since I've gone through the trials of the fallen world and survived? How much more will my relationship with God be? I can only speculate since I haven't gone through the fire of death yet but I'm taking it on faith.

Edit this blog
Write a response Email the author

---

Write a blog