Not sure where I got this: "Nothing can touch me unless it first passes through the will of God." Maybe, it's mine. But, I absolutely believe it, and the idea is alive within me and has been ever since I became a Christian---actually, longer than that I think. I attended many a church service and participated in many a Bible study (admittedly as a child) before I became a confessed and commissioned Follower in my 30's.
If "everything" that happens to me is "allowed" by God, then I guess that means it has His sanction---His green light, so to speak. And if that is the case, then it's my function to accept it and deal with it and keep on driving through it, no matter what I may think of it. God might give Satan permission to enter one's life, as He did with Job, which suggests Satan cannot crawl into the lives of those in the Body of Christ through simply his own volition. And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any man pluck them out of my hand---John 28:10. And I think, by extension, no angel. God's permission is completely necessary. Other Biblical examples revolve around the vulnerability of the unsaved and the good that Christians can gain and our ability to bear the tribulation.
Well, that got fuzzy, didn't it? I look at the pathetic condition of our current American culture and cannot help but believe that we have pushed God to the point of setting Satan completely free. He is already the Prince of this world, but God has up to now placed some restrictions upon him and has, at times, intervened in human history against Satan's desires (most notably in the Christ's appearance as a lowly human). Evil behavior is threatening to open doors to even greater evil behavior---and devastation.
Perhaps, it is not as gloomy as it appears on the surface. Perhaps, we can still smile and laugh out loud. Perhaps, a revival is at hand. Perhaps, we may in greater numbers recognize again the wonderment in the event of Christ's resurrection---and the pending possibility of our own, if we claim Him. There is hope for this world and those in it. We must keep the cross and resurrection of Jesus at the forefront of our being, every moment of our living. We must because through our years we must drive our way through pain, guilt, and loneliness---difficulties of various sorts. Only God can comfort us now, and only God can provide us an eternal life of Goodness.
And so, even yet I contend . . . Nothing can touch me without first passing through the will of God.
If "everything" that happens to me is "allowed" by God, then I guess that means it has His sanction---His green light, so to speak. And if that is the case, then it's my function to accept it and deal with it and keep on driving through it, no matter what I may think of it. God might give Satan permission to enter one's life, as He did with Job, which suggests Satan cannot crawl into the lives of those in the Body of Christ through simply his own volition. And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any man pluck them out of my hand---John 28:10. And I think, by extension, no angel. God's permission is completely necessary. Other Biblical examples revolve around the vulnerability of the unsaved and the good that Christians can gain and our ability to bear the tribulation.
Well, that got fuzzy, didn't it? I look at the pathetic condition of our current American culture and cannot help but believe that we have pushed God to the point of setting Satan completely free. He is already the Prince of this world, but God has up to now placed some restrictions upon him and has, at times, intervened in human history against Satan's desires (most notably in the Christ's appearance as a lowly human). Evil behavior is threatening to open doors to even greater evil behavior---and devastation.
Perhaps, it is not as gloomy as it appears on the surface. Perhaps, we can still smile and laugh out loud. Perhaps, a revival is at hand. Perhaps, we may in greater numbers recognize again the wonderment in the event of Christ's resurrection---and the pending possibility of our own, if we claim Him. There is hope for this world and those in it. We must keep the cross and resurrection of Jesus at the forefront of our being, every moment of our living. We must because through our years we must drive our way through pain, guilt, and loneliness---difficulties of various sorts. Only God can comfort us now, and only God can provide us an eternal life of Goodness.
And so, even yet I contend . . . Nothing can touch me without first passing through the will of God.
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