tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478696026524896430.post3209969699910734240..comments2017-01-28T06:47:16.819-08:00Comments on Matthew to Revelation: Matthew 6:25-27 - "For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life..."Misty Ironshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03375350124307819943noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478696026524896430.post-67868877046872389562012-02-22T07:59:47.809-08:002012-02-22T07:59:47.809-08:00Misty that was a beautiful and insightful perspect...Misty that was a beautiful and insightful perspective, thank you for sharing!Michael Thomas Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06525630415585321154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478696026524896430.post-69474179251049518022010-06-15T20:49:10.398-07:002010-06-15T20:49:10.398-07:00Joe: Yeah, that's one of those questions I per...Joe: Yeah, that's one of those questions I personally won't know the answer to until I've been through the famine or poverty of a Romans 8 nature. But I suspect that for those individuals who go through such sufferings while believing in the Father's provision, he provides for them faithfully. Sometimes you hear testimonies of God's provision from Christians who survive extreme situations overseas. Paul gives a similar testimony in Philippians 4:11-13 about the times he's been strengthened through hunger and need, and even learned contentment. In the midst of the famine or the war or the tragedy, God apparently gives to his own people what is needed from day to day. <br /><br />I've been thinking about this recently because I hear people say, "How can God be good when so much tragedy happens in the world? Where is your loving God then?" The earthquake in Haiti seems to prove their point. But I'm looking at the earthquake from the perspective of CNN. I don't know what God is doing on an individual level in the lives of his people who look to him for daily provision. Some years from now if we were to ask Haitian Christians about it, they might testify that God was faithful to them every day in the midst of that tragedy. The big picture may look bad, but the secret work of God on the personal level could tell an entirely different story.Misty Ironshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375350124307819943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478696026524896430.post-13414872358613613472010-06-15T15:47:36.573-07:002010-06-15T15:47:36.573-07:00One of the hardest things for me to wrap my head a...One of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around is, on the one hand, this promise of the Father's general provision for our basic needs, and on the other hand the real possibility of extreme circumstances in our present sufferings. In Rom. 8:35 Paul includes famine and nakedness as some of the situations that could be experienced that do not separate us from God's love. So the world continues to be no less hazardous for us, doesn't it? I understand that anxiety about such things won't add one bit of security to our lives; yet how do we hold this together with the seemingly extreme exceptions to the Father's general care conceded in other parts of scripture?Joe Brancahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606592579820919881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478696026524896430.post-60633059149212918662010-06-14T22:12:39.838-07:002010-06-14T22:12:39.838-07:00Thanks for reading so faithfully, Pastor Owen!Thanks for reading so faithfully, Pastor Owen!Misty Ironshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375350124307819943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478696026524896430.post-24067481268641411792010-06-14T16:33:21.370-07:002010-06-14T16:33:21.370-07:00Thanks, Misty, for this soul-nourishing and faith-...Thanks, Misty, for this soul-nourishing and faith-strengthening post.Owen Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169418257688436817noreply@blogger.com