Opus 2024-248: Differences

The first place that it really came home to me that everyone is different was when I was in the early stages of admitting I was diabetic.  I saw how diabetes strikes different people in different ways, and often it seems to have nothing to do with what they have actually practiced.  Obviously, there is a correlation between lifestyle and type 2 diabetes.  At the same time, for reasons I certainly can’t figure out, two people can do the same things and have different results.

Where that is coming home to me currently has to do with answers to prayer.  Some people are healed.  Some people aren’t.  We recently had a man in our church who went through triple bypass surgery.  He is the picture of fitness.  Slender, active, walking 45 minutes today, and yet, one of his arteries what is 100% clogged.  Go figure.  He survived and is doing well.

Where this is leading is the thought that crossed my mind that these kinds of differences reflect upon the nature of God.  God is not a machine where you punch a button and get a candy bar.  According to the Bible, He is a living being.  He feels anger.  He feels disappointment.  I think He experiences the gamut of emotions.  That means that He is free to respond to us as individuals based upon what He says needs to happen.  We don’t have the big picture.  He does. We don’t have the final word.  He does.  We are not God.  HE is.  Yes.

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