{"id":151,"date":"2008-06-02T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/randomness\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T13:26:00","slug":"randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/randomness\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is God in control of all things? Yes! Does God control all things? I don\u2019t know. What is the difference in these two questions? The first states that God is in control, but the second asks whether God chooses to control everything. When a tornado strikes a community did God control its movements for what ever reason or was the path the tornado took simply a random path. Stepping back one step was the storm itself ordained by God or was it the result of the random mixing of the proper atmospheric conditions.<\/p>\n

Randomness or God\u2019s will? Wrong place, wrong time or trials and testing? <\/p>\n

The world it seems is seeing its share of disasters, typhoons in Southeast Asia, earthquakes in China, wild fires in the Western US, drought, floods, tornados, tsunamis. The list goes on and on and on. Are these disasters a result of the randomness of various climatic, tectonic, or human factors? The question that arises is where is God in this? Maybe a better question is what are we as Christ-followers doing to relieve the suffering that is going on around us? Perhaps the reason \u201cwhy\u201d is not as important as the question \u201cHow are we (am I) going to respond.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all right to say I don\u2019t know why, but it\u2019s not all right to say I don\u2019t care or I don\u2019t want to be bothered with it. <\/p>\n

Remember also that when disaster strikes it may take a long time to get back to \u201dnormal.\u201c So after the initial trauma is over don\u2019t forget about the people affected by the disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is God in control of all things? Yes! Does God control all things? I don\u2019t know. What is the difference in these two questions? The first states that God is in control, but the second asks whether God chooses to control everything. When a tornado strikes a community did God control its movements for what … <\/p>\n

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