Tuesday, June 17, 2008

whose to blame?

There is so much sickness and so much evil that makes its home in this world. Children are dying all over the world due to starvation, cancer, aids, tumors, etc. etc. One young child whom I had heard about has a very rare hereditary brain tumor disease and is about to die. His sister has the same disease, though hers is dormant for the time being. We are talking here about kids who haven't had the chance to make serious choices, kids who haven't had the chance to willingly surrender their lives to Jesus, kids who will never have the pleasure of many things God has declared as good in this world. Why does God make these innocent children endure such hardship? He doesn't. You might be mad at Jesus, you might think He is some cruel and unjust Being, but you are simply looking at things through the eyes of Satan. Just as Satan deceived Eve into eating the fruit of The Tree of Knowledge, so are you being deceived by this same devil. Sin entered into this world by the choices of our fathers, and this sin that has forever corrupted human beings and all of creation with it is being practiced by every human every day. So why are innocent children being tormented? Because of sin. And how would we know sin if it weren't for the Law? We know our sin when our lives are placed alongside the Law. "The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." Though we die by the Law, we are resurrected by the blood of Jesus. He lived the life WE ALL cannot live. He died the death WE ALL should have died. And now, He is living in a perfect body, as ALL those who call upon His name and truly believe in Him will someday live as well. Terrible things happen to good and bad people. Good things happen to good and bad people. But someday, the goodness of the God-man, Jesus Christ, will resurrect us into perfection. So away with your foolish thinking! That God is some child with a magnifying glass killing ants to appease Himself! He is not to be so viewed. Sin is OUR self inflicted curse, Jesus is OUR undeserved salvation.