Tuesday, July 17, 2007

bad to worse


many things in life doesn't always good. sometimes we face problems that are bad, and it got worse. just like what richard robert preached in the sunday svc. that's why the bible is so true, things can go from bad to worse. i asked God, why not make everything good? God does make all things good. if God loves us, He has to give us freedom, freedom is good, the freedom to choose, that's why He planted the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden. He knows we will never be free until we are given a choice. He doesn't create robots which don't have its own choice. but He created us in His own image and likeness. if love is a choice, He choose to love us. He never make a mistake. He cannot sacrifice our freedom even He knows we have to learn through the hard ways. He knows we will fall into sins, the devil will come and destroy us, in fact He knows everything, things that are going from bad to worse..

sometime we will face difficult situation, no matter how hard we try, we cannot get out of it, we felt that we are suffering. in Isaiah 1:18 says “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, by looking at this verse, we know that God likes to reason. in fact, He wants us to reason out all things. God doesn't want us to love Him just by our heart or soul, and the verse: ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ is being mentioned three times in the bible. note that the word "mind" is being used as our mind is for reasoning. if God says let us reason together, He must have all the answers. notice the word "together", it shows that He wants to have a relationship with us. He also gives us a choice to reason with our mind and not being authoritative, not ordering us. is the same as we can lead a horse to a river but we cant force it to drink the water. He knows that we are not perfect and will never have a perfect answer in life. we are all searching for the truth, God knows, and this is the reason that God wants us to reason together with Him. God doesn't expect us to learn all the things overnight but progressively He lead us. lesson by lesson, even from bad to worse..

we learned, like a little child, by understanding the truth, by love not by force and learned through mistakes and to make our choice. every great movie, similarly, the situation will go from bad then to worse then to almost destruction. but the promise of bible is always at the end. Jesus came down, He knows judas is going to betray Him and He would be cruxified on the cross. from bad to worse but there's always a resurrection. like movie Transformers, the sentence " no sacrifice, no victory" was mentioned a number of times. Jesus came down and sacrifice Himself for the victory of man. from bad to worse to resurrection. 2000 years ago, the battle has already won. we may face difficult situation now, from bad to worse, may be to almost destruction, but, be still and know that He is God. in Him there is no destruction but resurrection. The bible has completed. From Genesis to Revelation. He is the Alpha and the Omega. The Truth and the Life. The Beginning and the End.