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How can we put our trust in God if He allows so much horror in this world.
Your thoughts please. Thanks
People have asked that for years and years.
We know that:
God is all-powerful (Matthew 19:26; Luke 1:37).
God is all-loving (John 3:16; 1 John 4:8-10)
God can prevent evil from entering our lives (Psalm 91:9-10)
Yet when we see what you've posted as "He allows so much horror in this world", one needs to trust in the fact that God knows what he is doing which is beyond our insignificant wisdom:
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’. " (Romans 11:33-34)
“ ’For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ ” declares the LORD.
‘ As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts.’ ” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
God can prevent evil from entering our lives (Psalm 91:9-10)
Yet when we see what you've posted as "He allows so much horror in this world", one needs to trust in the fact that God knows what he is doing which is beyond our insignificant wisdom:
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’. " (Romans 11:33-34)
“ ’For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ ” declares the LORD.
‘ As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts.’ ” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Some people can't, for that reason. It depends on whether a person has had an encounter with the living God, I think. There are many times in the New Testament that tell the believer not to fear all the evil things that are in the world. That doesn't mean we can't be grieved by it though.
How can we put our trust in God if He allows so much horror in this world.
Your thoughts please. Thanks
There's no easy answer to that question, in my opinion. I also don't think it's something someone can answer for anyone else.
May I ask you a question? Is there anything, in your experience, that has sustained you while you were going through something that was difficult to endure, or anything that helped you to heal, emotionally, after you had passed through it?
If there has been, then looking to that and trusting it is a doorway to looking to and trusting God.
It depends on whether a person has had an encounter with the living God, I think. That doesn't mean we can't be grieved by it though.
Now, there, you have said it all, RainMusic ...once one encounters the living God...which is an exp of a lifetime, no small matter...
so much understanding comes, Divine Insight..and thus, why I said above, ''Not all is what it seems."
Pray to have the living God, the Divine Presence, His Holy Spirit visit you....be still
to prepare a place for this Holy event.
Then, no more questions about 'Him' are needed...I found.
Once this happens there is no actual need for the roadmap...you have arrived...but this is
for another thread.
Some people can't, for that reason. It depends on whether a person has had an encounter with the living God, I think. There are many times in the New Testament that tell the believer not to fear all the evil things that are in the world. That doesn't mean we can't be grieved by it though.
It all up to god for this encounter to happen, correct?
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...once one encounters the living God...which is an exp of a lifetime, no small matter...
