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Daily Devotional – Year 2 – JANUARY 19

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In Every Thing Give Thanks!?!

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Part 10

“Why Does God Break Our Hearts?”

To read Part 1, click here… February 1st (In Every Thing Give Thanks!?!)

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“Slay them not, lest My people forget:

scatter them by thy power;

and bring them down,

O Lord our shield.”

Psalm 59:11

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Have you ever heard someone angrily make the following complaint…“If God is so good, then why does He allow so much tragedy?!”

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Or you might also hear this similar remark…“If God is so loving, why doesn’t He just stop all the evil?!”

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Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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Well, these are legitimate questions!

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Just why does God allow all the bad stuff?

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Exclamation Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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And God had two choices:

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Plan 1: To annihilate mankind, or…

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Plan 2: allow selfishness to play itself out to its ultimate results.

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And since God is a loving and merciful God, He chose Plan 2: He allowed mankind to continue existing in this fallen world, filled with all its lusts and selfish desires.

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Psa_36:2  For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

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But God also allowed our selfishness to manifest itself for what it truly is: a destructive government, resulting in human misery and death.

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Well, to put it concisely, even bluntly, God is trying to break our selfish hearts!

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In other words, He knows the hearts of humans, that we love our selfish ways! 

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And we love this self-seeking world!

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So, God must allow this selfish world-system to play itself out until humanity finally realizes sin’s horrific results.

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Psa_35:16  With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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There are many unhappy citizens, even “gnashing of teeth” against God, crying out “If there is a God, then He’s a heartless monster!

“Just look at all the innocent children being trafficked,” they bitterly say, “being abused, getting cancer!

“And your wonderful God just sits back and says, ‘Tough Luck!'”

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Ecc_3:11  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

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The problem is, that Planet Earth’s citizenry cannot see beyond this little life.

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This short little existence is all they are concerned with.

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They cannot see the Promised Land waiting beyond the grave of all them who put their trust in the Savior!

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“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time” Ecclesiastes 3:11

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“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes…”

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The very Good News is, that there is coming very soon a new day of which it is written…

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;

and there shall be no more death,

neither sorrow, nor crying,

neither shall there be any more pain:

for the former things are passed away.”

Revelation 21:1, 4

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All those who put their trust in Jesus will “look up, and lift up your heads” and realize that God will raise up all those who suffered at the cruel hand of Satan.

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And they will rise from their graves, only to enter into that Promised Land in which they will be forever happy, forever healthy…and forever young!

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Help me to fully grasp this concept of giving thanks in both the good as well as the bad things that happen…

…Help me to understand that nothing can happen to me, either good or bad, unless you allow it to happen…

USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read…

“July 13th (“Alone With God!”)”

…or you may also read…

MARCH 4 (“Why Does God Allow Suffering?”)

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THE END

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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN

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GRASPING FOR SCEPTER AND A CROWN…

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This page however just deals with the Woman travailing in child-birth.

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When she is in labor, she appears to reach out her hand southward to grasp a The Cross/Scepter, which is coming from the South, out of an ark-like box.

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There also is a Crown of 12 Stars (13 counting a star in the center).

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But the Crown (the Corona Borealis Constellation) is not yet on her head.

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The crown is to the south of her.

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So, she is grasping for the Cross/Scepter.

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She doesn’t yet wear the crown.

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This reminds us of that well-known passage in Philippians which states…

…”Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended:

but this one thing I do,

forgetting those things which are behind,

and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize

of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 3:13, 14

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And also, another verse of the apostle Paul…

…”Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,

which the Lord, the righteous judge,

shall give me at that day:

and not to me only,

but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

2nd Timothy 4:8.

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So, this woman with child is grasping, either for that Cross/Scepter, or perhaps that crown, or both.

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This is such an incredible scenario in the heavens!

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But this is a very complex concept.

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Because this headless woman-with-child, which turns upside down in winter to become the “Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12″…

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…and combine this with that Crown and that Cross/Scepter, of which she appears to be grasping for in summer…

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…and these various aspects present a great portion of what the Bible is about.

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Woman of Revelation 12 (Woman in Travail)”

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TOMORROW…””

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