Posted by
Republiservative on Friday, March 20, 2009 3:49:04 PM
May it become clearer to more that as Jesus gave out loaves and fishes, not bags of gold, and as Job had opportunity to avail of God's gifts and prosper in reliance upon Him despite setbacks rather than God snapping fingers for instant tangibles in recompense, the point of common grace is not funding specific needs or individuals to exclusions of all else, but allowing free choice as to whether one will settle for earthly temptations of darkness as success, or proceed amid those so tempted in reliance on God's spirit and within His Commandments...God knows the world and its warps change around those trying to use common grace His way, yet won't intermeddle even if those in wicked temptation were to put everyone in a vacuum and nobody even asked for God's grace in conjunctively trying to avoid staying in it...God gives us equal access to earthly resources, minds, and bodies, then mostly stays in His spirit realm telling us our souls' motives for why we did or didn't act in rejection of evil or binding thereof will be the arbiter of our eternity, not any man-made scorecard.
I used to repeatedly let my religious philosophy thinking be clouded by the thick fog "isms" of traditional faiths, politicians, theologians, and media, to the point I almost thought the prayers of so many diverse and devout people over time...resulting in ongoing social and religious attritions...were a sign of God's non-existence, religious and Scriptural false promises, or both; I see now God intends we bind Hellish influences as is appropriate to their manifestation, BUT according to His Commandments and in reliance upon His common grace...rather than just sit around praying; we must act responsibly and civilly for justice, daily bread, and the remission of malicious spirits and those in their temptation, and as well stand up for our own rights in such God-fearing style...and learn to ignore the dark whispers "you're no better than us if you complain we immobilize you, in such way you HAVE to appear to sin in our opposition even if not deadly", as God surely will not afford such limitation of His creations to the hand of Satan...no matter their own non-harmful religion/faith, or secular analog thereto.