Considering the power and popular influence over young people
When Job lost his ten children, killed by a gale that crushed them (like hurricanes that ravage and destroy today), he tore his coat, shaved his head, threw himself to the ground, and loved it. I left my mother’s womb and will come back naked; The Lord gave it and the Lord took it; Bless the name of the Lord!(Job 1. 21) Then, wounded by tumors throughout his body, Job told his wife that he had cursed God. : “Have we received the good of God and will not also receive evil?”(Job 2. 10). In both cases, the author of Job’s book adds that he did not sin, in these bold statements about God’s sovereignty over wind, disease, and Satan. (see Job 1. 22; 2. 10).
- In this sense.
- What are the main influences for today’s youth?What message is conveyed about God’s government about all things.
- The right to give and receive that he has as Creator.
- And his authority to rule the world?A rock star.
- The daughter of a Methodist pastor from North Carolina.
- Has undergone an abortion.
- When he thought this painful event was in God’s will.
- He replied.
- “If it was.
- Then I would kick his ass.
- Why am I not interested?Your will will be done.
- ” As the mother of this child.
- Do I want my will and not yours?(Foster’s Sunday Citizen.
- November 15.
- 1998).
Job later spoke of people like his wife and this rock star, they are prosperous, they do not understand that their own breathing is a gift of grace that they do not deserve (God is not?Served by human hands, as if something were because it is he who gives each one life, encouragement and everything else Hch 17:25). Do these people not have a life of continued gratitude for God’s patience and tolerance (or despise the richness of his goodness, tolerance, and long life, not knowing that it is God’s goodness that leads you to repentance?2. 4). They believe that pleasure is the norm of life and interpret suffering as an opportunity to blaspheme the Most High. Job said of them, “They are the ones who said to God, Get out of us!We don’t want to know your habits. What is the Almighty for us to serve him?And what good would it do us to pray to him? (Job 21:14-15)
What is the Almighty for us to serve him?
That’s a big question, depending on the tone of voice. Here’s part of the answer.
? That’s why you were born. ” In this document, were all things created?(Colosssenses 1. 16).
? Is that why you keep existing, do you hold all things with the word of their power?(Hebrews 1. 3).
? Decide why you exist and it makes you achieve your goals. “Was everything created through him and for him?(Colosssenses 1,16).
? He rules over all the authorities that seem so influential on earth. Jesus Christ, the ruler of the kings of the earth (Revelation 1. 5).
? He has only the power to forgive sins. Does the Son of Man have authority over the earth to forgive sins?(Mark 2. 7, 10).
? Opposing God makes no sense in the extreme. “What horrible thing is it to fall into the hands of the living God? (Hebrews 10:31).
? Loving God and approaching Him is a complete wisdom. “In your presence [of God] is there a fulness of joy, in your right hand, of delights forever?(Psalm 16. 11). Are you approaching God, and he will come closer?for the rest of you? (James 4. 8).
Therefore, with joy and trembling, we humbly go under the mighty hand of God. Crying can last one night, but joy comes in the morning (Salt 30. 5). God’s ways are often strange. But when these paths are strange, Job is a better example than a rock star.
Devotion of John Piper’s book Provai e Vede
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