Will God let you play in the steet when a truck is coming?
I've been happy to see and hear more messages lately about the goodness of God. Although there are still people who preach an angry, distant God, more and more are seeing the real truth of his character. Paul told Timothy, "Everything God created is good" (1Tim. 4:4). James, the brother of Jesus, told the church, "Every good and perfect thing is coming down from the Father..." (Jms. 1:17). People are starting to get it. With this change I'm hearing a little less direct blaming of God for things. You know: "God made me / my child / my spouse / my neighbor sick to make them a better person." It seems folks are moving away from this kind of twisted picture. But then someone dies - a mother, a child, a veteran, a police officer, a sinner, a saint. Someone dies, and the platitudes start oozing out of the back rooms in which they were hidden after all. "We don't know why God lets these things happen, but we know he has a plan." ...