They shall be my people and I will be their God... I will not turn away from doing good to them... I will rejoice in doing good to them... with all my heart and with all my soul.
What does we being God's people and Him being our God mean?
Well the verse seems to say that it does mean that God will not stop doing good to us, and He will enjoy it as He does it.
So what does this mean? It means that so many as surrender themselves under God's sovereignty i.e, become His people, enjoy the marvellous truth that He will ceaselessly do good to them. In other words, it's always good with God's people. Indeed, Romans 8:28 says the same thing "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose."
Nice. So recently I read on Facebook, a touching story of how God healed this friend's uncle who was about to die. Magically, it was close to Christmas. It says, thank you for healing him but please to not let it happen again, our hearts can only take that much.
What do you think? I don't like the sound of it.
The post seems to mean to say that if the uncle somehow died, that God has somehow ceased doing good.
It's odd. Our experience is the bible, and the bible is the experience- the roles have swapped.
I think many Christians fail to put these in their proper places. When the bible says that God will not turn away from doing good to us, it necessarily means that good is being done towards us every passing second.
For the bible to be the bible, we must insist, no matter the extent of discomfort the incident brings, that God is still doing good.
But instead, our experience becomes our bible. We think: Oh, wait, this isn't good. God? Where's the good you promised? Please resume doing good to me!
And if the good we expect never comes, it does not occur to us that in our expectation of it we have begun to say that the good God is still doing is not so good after all.
Can we really say that?
I think the bible has 1 thing to say
Job 2:10 as job rebukes his wife
Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil?
Putting it all together, since God does not turn away from doing good to those whom he is God to:
Shall we receive only the things which we perceive as good but reject the ones we perceive to be bad?
Shall we live on with little faith and at times reject the good things God ceaselessly does as bad?
Hold on to your faith! Hold on to the character of God.
He will be God to you and will tirelessly, gladly do you good always.
What do we do with our experience? We make out what seems good to God and hence come to greater understanding of His will...
which is His will.
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