http://blog.therefugeonline.org/2006/12/05/kathy-equality/ Thu, 17 May 2012 22:10:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.therefugeonline.org/2006/12/05/kathy-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-70 mike Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:56:00 +0000 http://www.blog.therefugeonline.org/blog/?p=17#comment-70 "My ways are higher than your ways..." how can we take comfort in such a statement? what is God up to. everything is a paradox with Him. lose your life to save it. give away to receive. the last will become first. suffering is a blessing. love your enemy. what is He thinking. is He crazy or am i missing something. i don't like to beleive it, but i am so selfish. i want all the blessings God has given to others, but none of the suffering. but God loves me to much to give me those selfish desires of my heart. i can't think of a single time that a material blessing brought me closer to God. oh, but those painful things in my life. the losses. the addictions. the broken relationships. the health problems.in time, they have all drawn my closer, somehow. where as i used to envy the people with no suffering in their lives, i now pity those whose lives are all together. i don't think they can ever experience the joy of trusting God when He is all there is. when there is nothing but Him to hang on to. do i like the pain and suffering. no and i never will. but i hang on to a quote from an old pastor who used to say "if you knew what God knows, you would want exactly what God wants". “My ways are higher than your ways…” how can we take comfort in such a statement? what is God up to. everything is a paradox with Him. lose your life to save it. give away to receive. the last will become first. suffering is a blessing. love your enemy. what is He thinking. is He crazy or am i missing something. i don’t like to beleive it, but i am so selfish. i want all the blessings God has given to others, but none of the suffering. but God loves me to much to give me those selfish desires of my heart. i can’t think of a single time that a material blessing brought me closer to God. oh, but those painful things in my life. the losses. the addictions. the broken relationships. the health problems.in time, they have all drawn my closer, somehow. where as i used to envy the people with no suffering in their lives, i now pity those whose lives are all together. i don’t think they can ever experience the joy of trusting God when He is all there is. when there is nothing but Him to hang on to. do i like the pain and suffering. no and i never will. but i hang on to a quote from an old pastor who used to say “if you knew what God knows, you would want exactly what God wants”.

]]> http://blog.therefugeonline.org/2006/12/05/kathy-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-69 smountjoy Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:06:00 +0000 http://www.blog.therefugeonline.org/blog/?p=17#comment-69 Kathy, I am like you when it comes to "undesirable" events--I don't want those to be equal; in fact, I don't want them in my life at all! Your distinction is cogent: not everything that is "un-equal" is also "fair." <br/>I think that, if it were possible, if we set up a totally "fair" world and everything was "equal" at that point in time, by morning of the second day things would be askew again. In a broken world there are lots of reasons things get "un-equal," some of them good and some not. In any case, we are stuck with a world where equality is out of the question. The best I can do every day is to try to be fair in my dealings with others, then go beyond that as I can, remembering all the time who I am. It's reminescent of Micah 6:8 Kathy, I am like you when it comes to “undesirable” events–I don’t want those to be equal; in fact, I don’t want them in my life at all! Your distinction is cogent: not everything that is “un-equal” is also “fair.”
I think that, if it were possible, if we set up a totally “fair” world and everything was “equal” at that point in time, by morning of the second day things would be askew again. In a broken world there are lots of reasons things get “un-equal,” some of them good and some not. In any case, we are stuck with a world where equality is out of the question. The best I can do every day is to try to be fair in my dealings with others, then go beyond that as I can, remembering all the time who I am. It’s reminescent of Micah 6:8

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