Good Day Paul
Thank you for your wise sayings.
I have two Teachings that are coming in the next few Days.
" What does the Bible say about Pride"
"The Danger of Complaining"
God Bless
Vuyiswa
Thank you for this insight. Most of us as Christians tend to pass judgment when seeing on our fellow Christian living in poverty. We are quick to say, if they worship and pray in truth and in Spirit, God will never bring them such suffering, yet we fail to go back and read the bible and try to understand what God says about this.
A question for you sir. A few years back there was a tv documentary on poverty stricken countries, where children and adults alike were dying of hunger, and a former colleague asked me a question that went: "Why would God expose his children to such injustice if He really loved them?". Obviously I was taken aback by this question as I never interacted with someone who questioned God's Love before.
If you were to respond to this kind of question, sir, how would you address the question at hand?
Thanking you in advance,
Mildred
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A very good question Mildred. The Bible says everything that is good has been made by God. There are people who are poor because of the negligence by their Government and there are those who are poor because it is a will of God. As i stated in the my Teaching that , There are many reasons why God allowed poor people in this world. Some reason i know , but some are a mystery to me.
Some Nations are being punished because they have rejected God. Some it is the work of Devil.
If you have once read the book of Job, you will understand that God does not send bad times , but he allow the Devil to send bad times to us so that we can believe that without God we do anything. Let me rephrase my Statement, God Allow the Devil to send challenges in our lives ,He makes sure that you will not overcome these challenges without God.
The Devil said to God in the book of Job , that let me test him , God said Satan , continue but do not kill him. He continue to do all this sort of bad things to Job.
Mildred, you asked a very good question, but let me make it clear when i answer you.
In my post , i said God says there will always be people who are poor , i did not say God sent Poverty to the people. But He allowed it to be there but he did not make anyone to be poor. If i saw all good things comes from God , and in the next statement i say God sent Poverty then i am not teaching the correct doctrine, because there is nothing good in our eyes with poverty. So God did not create poverty , but he allowed the deceiver of this world to send poverty and other disasters like earth quick to mankind so that mankind can doubt God.
To add to this answer. God is Spirit and he says don't be afraid of anyone who can kill the body , but be afraid of the one who can kill both the body and the Soul. When many people read the verse that state that , they think the bible is talking about us not being afraid if someone can kill us , but it talks about the Devil, it says he can send all this poverty and natural disaster , but he will only kill the body , but he will never kill the Soul. Why is this important to God , why is the next life important to God than this life? It is because what is of this world is not real than what you will see in the Next life. Be concerned about the next life because it does not end. If might be forever in Hell or in Heaven.
I hope i answered your question.
God Bless
Continue to be a blessing.