Learning

Spent a lot of time thinking today while doing 5 hours of physical therapy.

The first line of thought revolved around the apparent randomness of life.  Think about it, you can be living your life as best you can - and blam you lose a leg!  I mean really where did that one come from?  Effect with no cause what so ever!  A complete violation of everything I have ever held to!  Cause and effect have been invalidated as a life principle.

If effects can exist without any apparent cause, then how does one judge where you stand with God?  Conversely, if causes can exist without effect, then no wonder people believe they can get away with anything or even that God does not even exist!

And so I can now understand where misled Christians get the idea they can judge others based upon the going ons in other's lives.  Except I can see the flaw is huge in the misunderstanding here.

I can also see now where the idea of the randomness of life comes from.  Thinking of Barry, me, James, my lawyer friend - all whose lives have been turned upside down across the past year.  What about Dutchman, Swede, Pamela and my family all impacted as well by what has happened to us?

Is God in control or not?

Of course He is actively in charge!  But, He is sovereign and is not to be held to predictable routines, man made rules nor even our own understandings or expectations.

It is terribly confusing, but I praise God He is independent of us, of me, of bad theology ....