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beccashipp
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Posted:10/09/2007 9:27 AM |
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October 8, 2007
Journal entries for John 17 and 18
I watched a movie called Blood Diamonds this past weekend and as I was watching it, my faith was shaken a bit. The movie revealed the war, kidnapping, and murder in Africa that was caused by diamond mining. I had many questions and emotions that I was trying to sort out. "Why is God allowing this to happen?" "Where is God?" "If God allows and causes everything to work together...is this suffering and war really part of His plan and done all for the glory of His kingdom?" I know we will never "measure the depths of His understanding" Isaiah 40:28, but we as humans are by nature curious, always seeking. I know that I have to trust Him even in a fallen world where Satan is supreme.
I felt guilt because here I am in my comfortable home with my daughter healthy and safe and they are over there homeless and dying. I wonder what I will wear tomorrow, they are wondering if they will be alive tomorrow. I couldn't imagine me going over there to look at a woman of children who have been kidnapped, murdered, or mutilated. A woman of a husband who was murdered defending there home, a woman who is dying of aids. I don't think I could look at these women with a hopeful face and definite faith and say, "Just trust in Him. He will guide you and heal you and get you through this war." Yes, I believe that I am strong in faith and love and total trust in God...but who am I to go to these people of Africa and say "Have faith dear child" when I get to go home to my safe, educated, healthy, and wealthy country? (Now I know how Moses felt when God recruited him to go free God's people.)
Well, some of my questions were answered as I read John 17:9 "My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you." So, maybe God works within Individuals and not the world and all its troubles. After all, God's own people were in bondage and slavery for 400 years until God set them free. "Should we not also drink from our own cup of suffering?" see John 18:10. I just know one thing; I cannot wait for Jesus to come back. I can't wait for his Father, El Shaddai, to once again put our world straight so that we can live without all of this chaos. And as Pastor Dave once preached on...It's unimaginable how our spirits will feel to be free from the world and its sin and its overwhelming power of hurt and division. Please God, show us Heaven! Let us finally live among you!
Amen!
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John316
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Posted:11/12/2007 4:09 PM |
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I was also very shaken by Blood Diamonds. Below is a link to a group that is trying to stop these atrocious http://stopblooddiamonds.org/.
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