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August 17, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Robin Altman
Janice,
I didn’t know you had a website – I read a few things and you do a great job.
Robin
October 4, 2008 at 2:23 am
manupmen
If God loved the cardinal, why did He let it hit the car?
October 4, 2008 at 8:20 am
Janice Green
Your question is so valid.
We want God to keep everything rosy and perfect for ourselves. You are very concerned about the cardinal as I was. But God is seeing the world through a different set of eyes. His eyes are able to see beyond the tragedies and into eternity.
The cardinal is a bird, not human life. Cardinals die every day. God loves the cardinals, He made them. God notices when a bird dies and cares that it died for no aparent reason as happened when this one was struck by my car. But in the world He created, there is a food chain that makes use of everything, even if the bird didn’t die a natural death.
As the scripture says, we are worth so much more than the sparrows. (Matthew 10:28-31) God does intervene on our behalf though not always in the same way we ask. God looks at a much bigger picture than we are able to see though our eyes in the here and now. Sometimes God is using our troubles to re-shape our lives, to teach us new things, or simply to help us to re-focus our attention on Him.
And God sees past our world into Eternity. Once we are on the other side, our troubles will seem much smaller in comparison to how we see them now. After all, our lives are but a breath compared to the time we have in eternity. Look to Jesus during the troubles in your life and trust God with the big picture.
October 4, 2008 at 10:35 am
manupmen
You have made a great case for Godly terrorism. God creates pain because He knows best! Screw the cardinal. Screw the child born with blood cancer. Screw the cripple and the lonely. God is causing all of it because He is a nice guy who doesn’t care so much about pain.
October 4, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Janice Green
I am sorry you are so angry with God. He isn’t out to hurt people and cause pain and agony as you want to portray him. But he isn’t going to give us a sugar-coated life either. Man invited sin and evil into this world beginning with Adam and Eve. Life isn’t always fair. That is why we look forward to the life beyond where sin and pain is forever cast out. Jesus is willing to go through the pain with us as he demonstrated once and for all by dying in our place on the cross. And he is there to comfort us today even in the pain if we will but let him. Sometimes he heals us directly in this life, and sometimes he uses the pain to heal problems that are bigger than the pain. Other times he uses one person’s pain and his/her acceptance of it to minister to another person. We see through child-like eyes as we try to understand the ways of our heavenly Father. He made you and he loves you. Trust Him to do what is best for you in your life.
October 4, 2008 at 6:47 pm
manupmen
It is impossible to be angry with God. Just as it is impossible to be angry with Santa Claus, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Easter Bunny.
October 4, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Janice Green
I disagree. Some are unable to acknowledge it, however. A lot of people are angry with God when they don’t get their way. And I’m sure there are many disappointed children each Christmas who think Santa didn’t give them their fair share.