Does anyone know?

[jwharv]

I have met more that blame all of lifes problems on the devil then I can count.

There use to be a church outside of Mobile that would make you pray back through if you were late for church. If anything happened to you during the week like a flat tire they would call it "God's Judgement" and call you out during the service to come and repent.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by jwharv

I have met more that blame all of lifes problems on the devil then I can count.

There use to be a church outside of Mobile that would make you pray back through if you were late for church. If anything happened to you during the week like a flat tire they would call it "God's Judgement" and call you out during the service to come and repent.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Barb

I was thinking about this a lot today...situations, trials, tribulations and trouble comes to everyone sooner or later.

More often than not, we hear folks say that it's the judgment of God when this or that happens.

But can anyone determine when the line is crossed between judgment and just life?! I mean, it rains on the just and unjust...when is it God and when is it just our turn to go through?!

Does this make sense?!

It makes sense and it's a hard question to answer sis.

I think most of what we experience in life is just life. "Time and chance happens to all" is what Solomon said. I think some of what we experience is a result of sowing and reaping and that includes good things as well as bad..

I don't know that very much that happens to us is the actual "judgment" of God. That will come .... and I know it does to an extent in this life but when and where that starts and stops is hard to determine.

I've had people talk to me and cry about situations and blame it on God judging them for something they had done when they were young or going through a difficult time in their life or in a backslidden state that had happened many years previous.

I've reminded them that the same kind of things happen to people who have always been faithful and never made the kind of mistakes others have. And that sometime some of the difficulties people face are simply a result of their own bad decision making, bad judgment and reaping what they sowed.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by Felicity

It makes sense and it's a hard question to answer sis.

I think most of what we experience in life is just life. "Time and chance happens to all" is what Solomon said. I think some of what we experience is a result of sowing and reaping and that includes good things as well as bad..

I don't know that very much that happens to us is the actual "judgment" of God. That will come .... and I know it does to an extent in this life but when and where that starts and stops is hard to determine.

I've had people talk to me and cry about situations and blame it on God judging them for something they had done when they were young or going through a difficult time in their life or in a backslidden state that had happened many years previous.

I've reminded them that the same kind of things happen to people who have always been faithful and never made the kind of mistakes others have. And that sometime some of the difficulties people face are simply a result of their own bad decision making, bad judgment and reaping what they sowed.

Thank you all for your responses...they have all helped. Perhaps when I get back home this afternoon, I'll have a chance to speak to each post.

A couple of you have mentioned reaping and sowing and that makes a lot of sense...

[berkeley]

You really need to go and comment on the thread "what women want" almost forgot to smile... and say thank you..

"thank you"