Thinking Aloud

  Ecclesiastes 7:29 NLT God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path. There, you have the history of mankind in a nutshell!  When God created man, He did not create him like a robot, but designed him into a creature of thinking, reasoning, remembering and planning, with a free will to make choices. He placed at the depth of man’s heart the knowledge of God (Romans 1:19), but man was expected to exercise his free will to love God. God never intervened in this. In the worst scene, even those who were called by God for a specific purpose rejected the path of righteousness and followed the dictates of their hearts. Let us examine a few examples from the Holy Bible: Solomon : David was a faith mountain, God's chosen servant, called by God ‘’a man after my own heart’’. Out of his many sons, God had chosen Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom Israel . He also enabled Solomon to build a magnificent temple in Jerusalem for...

    Psalm 37 authored by King David is a response to the problem of evil. Spurgeon  calls it "The great riddle of the prosperity of the wicked and the affliction of the righteous". Why do the wicked prosper and the good suffer? The Psalm answers that the situation is only temporary; God will reverse things, rewarding the good and punishing the wicked here on earth.  The Book of Psalm is a prayer of the persecuted who has taken refuge in God. Psalm 37 concludes with a plea to God for those who honor him, to bless them with his justice and to protect them from the snares of the wicked.  Verse 11 of this Psalms was quoted by  Jesus in  Matthew 5:5 , “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth”. The sentiment is repeated 5 times in Psalms 37! The Psalm contains many other features that make it unique. Primary among them are the great numbers of rewards promised to those who have placed their trust in the Lord. 1.     ...