{"id":610,"date":"2010-06-08T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T03:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/gods-tools\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:41:58","slug":"gods-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calebripple.com\/blog\/gods-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s Tools."},"content":{"rendered":"

No, i am not talking about pastors and evangelist or any believers for that matter. I’m talking about when evil things happen, when bad stuff happens we are all so quick to rebuke the devil and blame it on a fallen world and for some strange reason we, in those times, suddenly forget that God\u2014the creator God, the One the Holy Scriptures speak of\u2014 is sovereign. Meaning nothing can get by Him. That means when evil things happen (i.e. captivity, death, destruction), God is ultimately the one from whom it comes.<\/p>\n

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I guess that’s my point, sometimes God’s tools aren’t exactly what we’d expect from an all good God\u2014and He is ALL GOOD (cf Is. 10, Amos 3:6, Job 2:10). Does an evil tool taint a good, just God? Can God, who is the standard of good and justice even be tainted?<\/p>\n

Suppose maybe we should think about these things next time evil things are going down? Suppose maybe instead of instantly rebuking satan or answering evil with neat and seemingly logical answers like, “well you see the earth is cursed, blah blah blah, darkness and cold and heat and light blah blah blah…”, we should just humbly confess our inadequacies and weakness and repent of our inherent foolishness and trust on the preeminent Christ who is our Source?<\/p>\n

I suppose we humans tend to forget that water is wet and fire is hot, and God is God and we are not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, i am not talking about pastors and evangelist or any believers for that matter. I’m talking about when evil things happen, when bad stuff happens we are all so quick to rebuke the devil and blame it on a fallen world and for some strange reason we, in those times, suddenly forget that God\u2014the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[88,86,90,89,87],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life","tag-evil","tag-god","tag-good","tag-justice","tag-sovereign"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t