The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.” Prov16.4
I think most people from time to time have questioned some of God’s activities, even if they have not verbalized it. For instance why did God make poison ivy, or mosquitoes, HIV or tsunamis? We may as well ask why and an all-sufficient God created at all. The answer repeated to us again and again from the Scriptures is simply that everything that God does, He does for His own glory. His every action or inaction is to highlight His supreme worth and value and everything He has made serves a purpose in revealing it. Someone has suggested and I think rightly that God created us as the overflow of His goodness; that our highest purpose is to enjoy Him as that one unique being we call God. As for all the un-pleasantries in our rebellious world, well let’s just say that the word rebellious explains much. Our rebellion and the many ways it has corrupted the world, is still not beyond His great goodness and wisdom. God time and again has used pain and suffering just as the surgeon cuts his patient with the one intent to restore them to health. 8/16/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
