Who is like unto the Lord our God, Who dwelleth on high, Who dwelleth on high, Who is like unto the Lord our God Who dwelleth on high, Who dwelleth on high.
You dwell in glory/The heavens are your home/You began the story/And made your beauty known/But You created nothing/That gives me more pleasure than You/And you won't give me something/That gives me more pleasure than You/
You hung the planets/In Your image You made man/I'm overcome and broken/At the wonders of your hand/But You created nothing that gives me more pleasure than You/ And You won't give me something that gives me more pleasure than You.
That song is called You Created. Why does such an awsome God want a relationship with us? We want nothing to do with Him but He loves us anyway. He is sad and sometimes very angry but He is patient. Everyday the Creator is trying to reach us but we don't see or understand. Maybe it is because we are not looking for God. Our lives seem to be perfect. We are comfortable the way we are living. Sometimes God has to bring us pain in order to get our attention. It is because God loves us that He lets pain come into our lives. Without that pain or discomfort, why would anybody look for or seek God.
For example in New Orleans and other coastal areas that got hit from Katrina. A person might be angry at God for letting that hurricane happen. God might be saying," You were happy in your life apart from me. You wanted nothing to do with me because you were comfortable. I love you and want an eternal relationship with you. That is why I had to bring you pain. That was the only way to get your attention. If you seek me with all of your heart you will find me. I want you to find me because I desperatly want an eternal relationship with you."
Treasures and Pleasures of the Earth are enjoyable but they will fade away. They will lose there appeal. To have a growing relationship with God is so much more important. There is joy knowing that even if all fall away from you God will always be there. If you lose everything in a fire or a hurricane God is still there. Nothing takes Him by surprise. God lets bad things happen but that is so that we might know that He is God. Maybe through the tragedy a person might come to believe in God? It took severe depression for me. I thank God for that depression. If it were not for the depression I would not be a born again Christian today! God is truly good and full of love!
You dwell in glory/The heavens are your home/You began the story/And made your beauty known/But You created nothing/That gives me more pleasure than You/And you won't give me something/That gives me more pleasure than You/
You hung the planets/In Your image You made man/I'm overcome and broken/At the wonders of your hand/But You created nothing that gives me more pleasure than You/ And You won't give me something that gives me more pleasure than You.
That song is called You Created. Why does such an awsome God want a relationship with us? We want nothing to do with Him but He loves us anyway. He is sad and sometimes very angry but He is patient. Everyday the Creator is trying to reach us but we don't see or understand. Maybe it is because we are not looking for God. Our lives seem to be perfect. We are comfortable the way we are living. Sometimes God has to bring us pain in order to get our attention. It is because God loves us that He lets pain come into our lives. Without that pain or discomfort, why would anybody look for or seek God.
For example in New Orleans and other coastal areas that got hit from Katrina. A person might be angry at God for letting that hurricane happen. God might be saying," You were happy in your life apart from me. You wanted nothing to do with me because you were comfortable. I love you and want an eternal relationship with you. That is why I had to bring you pain. That was the only way to get your attention. If you seek me with all of your heart you will find me. I want you to find me because I desperatly want an eternal relationship with you."
Treasures and Pleasures of the Earth are enjoyable but they will fade away. They will lose there appeal. To have a growing relationship with God is so much more important. There is joy knowing that even if all fall away from you God will always be there. If you lose everything in a fire or a hurricane God is still there. Nothing takes Him by surprise. God lets bad things happen but that is so that we might know that He is God. Maybe through the tragedy a person might come to believe in God? It took severe depression for me. I thank God for that depression. If it were not for the depression I would not be a born again Christian today! God is truly good and full of love!
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I wish that I had all the answers to your questions. I will try to give you my thoughts but they not be God's.
God says in the Bible that His ways are not our own. Alot of the things that He does just doesn't make sense to human beings, especially to those people that don't have the Holy Spirit on the inside of them. The only way to receive the Holy spirit is to be Born Again.
You said that New Orleans was a religious city. You said that the majority of them are Christians. Are they really Christian? Look at Northern Ireland. The Catholics are fighting with the Protestants and the Protestants are fighting with the Catholics. Did God tell them to do that or are they doing what comes naturally? That is not the Holy Spirit inside of those people. Those people are living by sin. In otherwards they are not living by the power of the Holy Spirit. They are doing what Satan does not what God does. They may call themselves Christian but are they pleasing to God?
Ok. Say those 10,000 people that died in New Orleans were Born Again Christians. Yes, God did bring them home. They are in Heaven with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The ones that were left behind now are forced to think about eternity. If the disaster never happened those unbelievers would continue in there ways apart from God. They would probably die without knowing who God is. Not that the disaster will get the unbelievers saved but it is an opportunity. They saw death and now they are thinking about there own death in the future.
Is God selfish or are human beings selfish? Jesus left His Kingdom in Heaven to come to Earth 2000 years ago. He did not have to do that but He chose to do that. He came to Earth to teach us the Truth of His Father. He came to show us that we are sinners. He volunteered to die on the cross as payment for our sins. He died and rose again so that we can have a relationship with the Father through Jesus. Jesus needed to go back to the Father in heaven so that He could give us His Holy Spirit. Jesus suffered greatly so that we can be forgiven of our sins. Is that selfish?
Or is it selfish to say," I believe in God but I want to live my own way.
I tried to tell my father about God one time and my dad snapped on me. He said," I like my life and I don't want to change." What my father is saying is that he likes his comfort and doesn't want to change. His comfort is more important to him, than having a relationship with God.
Henry Ford created a car years ago. The car was made for a purpose. What if that car said, I refuse to do what I was created for. Wouldn't Henry Ford be angry and tear the car apart. God doesn't do that. He is patient but people want nothing to do with God. They are not living the way God created them to live.
I hope that I might have been able to help?
That is a perfect example of how God uses tragedies to save people for eternity. If nothing bad ever happened to her she might still be a lost sinner on her way to hell. Even though other people have gotten killed, God used the storm to save her and start an eternal relationship with her.