Almighty---Fairness

To night at Bible study we took a look at the movie Bruce Almighty. If you haven’t seen it yet; it is a lighthearted comedy. Bruce complains to God that He isn’t doing his job. He seems to think that God is like a child with a magnify glass, when the sun is bright and the ants are on their hill….we are but amusement with God causing us great pain. (I will be the first to admit I have felt this way before) God comes to Bruce and says that he is empowering Bruce will all of His powers….Bruce leaves in doubt and confusion from the 7th floor. Later he comes back to talk to God and is given the rules 1.Can’t tell anyone your God 2. can’t change free will. Throughout the movie there is a homeless man on the streets (God) that has signs that say things like “Life is Just” and Bruce is confused about such messages. Throughout the first portion of the week with his new powers Bruce betters his own life and forgets about everything else until voices start to be mumbled together in his head (Prayers) he tries to file them in several different ways, files, sticky notes and finally sets up an email account for prayers to file into….he tried to answer them, but as fast as he would reply more would come…so he just clicked answer “YES” to all of them. You can just imagine what effect this had economically….you’ll have to watch the movie to find out the ending if you don’t already know it. The main question was asked….what if we were God or had the powers of God? Could you just imagine? I can’t, I don’t think I would want that job…..to take on the world, to take on creation.
Going through life I often question God and his plan for me as mentioned in previous blogs. I sometimes feel that life is too hard, that things could be better, ask myself why are these things happening to me….do you ever do this? In Exodus 16:1-5 the Israelites have been taken out of Egypt and complain that they don’t have food. What does God do? Provides for them manna. Later on in Numbers 11:4-6 they complain that they would still rather be in Egypt at least there they had a variety of food to chose from, where now they are wondering around the desert with only manna filling there tummies. No satisfaction. Later on in Job we see a man that is being put to the test (he doesn’t know this but Satan has come to God basically saying here is this man with several blessings from You of course he likes You, but does he love you when everything is taken from him…? God allowed Satan to enter Job’s life and make it miserable for the most part. Job chapter 1) Job goes through and questions God (just like everyone of us have done in our lives I’m sure) Job isn’t seeing the big picture, just like Bruce wasn’t seeing the whole picture. Even if we could see it… it would be too much for us, we would have to be God to understand and know. In Job 38:1-11 Job is still asking God for answers and the Lord replies back to him.

The LORD Speaks
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the
storm. He said:
2 "Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
3
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who
marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched
a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings
set,
or who laid its cornerstone-

7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the
angels [a] shouted for
joy?
8 "Who shut up the sea behind
doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars
in place,
11 when I said, 'This far you may come and no
farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?

Have you ever questioned God, asked Him to give you a reason for something that just happened? I can’t even count on one hand how many times I have done this, and even sometimes asked God for an answer…a sign. Knowing that God is our potter and he can do with us what he will (Jeremiah 18: 1-12) He can make us, break us, and reform us whenever He choose even if it doesn’t always seem so fair to us. (Matt 20:1-16 is a parable about the workers in a vineyard that work several different hours, but all agreed on the same wage when they started work. The last ones that came got paid first and then went to the people who started their labor earlier in the day…the pay was all the same and they complained. The man just said that it was his money if they didn’t think that was fair that was fine, it was his money, there wasn’t anything dishonest about it and that is what they all agreed upon, it was more than what a good wage would be for a days work to begin with.) when I really think about it God is so generous to us we deserve nothing, He might as well destroy us…but instead He shows us mercy. We should then ask God for mercy, not demands, but instead Trust in Him.

“Everything happens for a reason.”

Lots of Love and Prayers,
Kristy


sorry for any errors in my typing, please be forgiving