Can you be a little LESS specific to how you think you may someday feel after it is over and you are considering how you felt thinking about it being over?
Well, considering the expectations I currently have of my feelings in anticipation of the event, I anticipate that my feelings after the event will most likely be in response to the event itself. Contrariwise, upon reflection after the event I anticipate that my feelings then will be of puzzlement that I feel anything now regarding the anticipation of the event.
It means God knows everything that is going on. He has it under control. We don't have to worry.
Ps 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
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Again, leadership has been completely silent about this whole ordeal.
Strange.
PP, I am not sure there is anything to say that will change things. The bottom line is even repealing the vote would not pacify the Tulsa crowd.
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God is in control, God is in control, God is in control.
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What does that really mean, anyway?
Generally, I take it to mean that the discernable laws of the predictable behavior of these chaotic events cannot now be perceived.
Thus, events appear to be random and without design or concern for the established norms of "justice;" and in spite of this we hold out confidence that things will sort themselves out in the end into a pattern reasonably acceptable as "good."
Generally, I take it to mean that the discernable laws of the predictable behavior of these chaotic events cannot now be perceived.
Thus, events appear to be random and without design or concern for the established norms of "justice;" and in spite of this we hold out confidence that things will sort themselves out in the end into a pattern reasonably acceptable as "good."
I dunno, "God is in control" seems like a tautology, or a self-fulfilling prophecy, or something. It can't possibly be disproved: nothing that ever happens could possibly be bad enough for us to say, "God slipped up". We can always say that He allowed it to happen for some greater good.
And who gets to decide what is good? Humans will never agree on some things (like Res 4, e.g.). So, leave it to God, right? Well, that would be another convenient way of proving that "God is in control" -- no matter what happens, God must think it was good. He allowed it to (or made it) happen, after all.
And to say that God is literally "in control" is to point a big finger of blame right at Him! 9/11? God was in control. Hitler? God controlled him.
Sometimes I think we say things just because we've heard others say them all our lives, without really thinking about what they mean.
Just rambling.
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I dunno, "God is in control" seems like a tautology, or a self-fulfilling prophecy, or something. It can't possibly be disproved: nothing that ever happens could possibly be bad enough for us to say, "God slipped up". We can always say that He allowed it to happen for some greater good.
And who gets to decide what is good? Humans will never agree on some things (like Res 4, e.g.). So, leave it to God, right? Well, that would be another convenient way of proving that "God is in control" -- no matter what happens, God must think it was good. He allowed it to (or made it) happen, after all.
And to say that God is literally "in control" is to point a big finger of blame right at Him! 9/11? God was in control. Hitler? God controlled him.
Sometimes I think we say things just because we've heard others say them all our lives, without really thinking about what they mean.
Just rambling.
I have no trouble saying God is in control. He is not fooled, flamboozled, turning a blind eye, mocked, or any such thing. He knows the end from the beginning and He has the big picture in view.
God is good and the Bible is clear what God thinks about the wicked and their devices. We all reap what we sow. Do you think God has any say in the wars of men? Read your Bible. There are woes a plenty from God to all the nations for their sins in the books of the prophets.
I trust God, I trust that God is good, fair, just, compassionate, righteous, etc. He has his reasons why He lets the wicked flourish at times and I trust that He knows what He is doing.
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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