Sunday, March 1, 2020

God cares us

Job 35:1-16
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’ Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?
If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him? If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerfulBut no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the nightwho teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?
Elihu sees good and bad conduct as a matter between people; God remains high above, untouched by either. People cry out to him in their need. But they are concerned for their own skins, nor for him. This is why he does not answer.
Why?
Elihu sees human are on the earth, but God remains on the high above, Man's good or evil behavior does not influence God. So God does nor answers our ask.
Elihu does not know that God is full of love. People's righteousness or behavior do not benefit or profit to the Lord, for all of these are created by the Lord.
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約伯前面說神奪取我的理,我的公義。人是否犯罪並不能影響神,但是神仍關心人。人虛妄的呼求人不回應,所以神沒回應是約伯虛妄,是惡人。他們都不願意正視約伯沒有犯罪的事,這些朋友想不到天上的事。
我們心中所想的一直都是行為主義。沒有想到神恩典的一面。神有賜福平安的意念,不是降災的意念。
How?

Doe not forget the Lord, who always cares about our prayers, for we are his children.





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