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Date: 24 December 2005 19:34:11
While I was away for the last few days, visiting the English Dragon, my thoughts turned to one of those great unanaswered questions in life - Why does God allow bad things to happen?
I was reminded of the Parable that Jesus would have told:
There was a man who owned an autochariot. It was a Romanus Octavian, witheth the go faster stripes and twin turbos. He hath possessed the car for several years withouteth major problems. Verily, it was regularly servicethed by the recommended seller, Pollo and Cacofonix.
One day he was on the road from Tiberias to Eilat. Suddenly there was the sound of much grinding of metal and spraying of oily smoke. The temperature guage wenteth to hot and verily steam was rising forth from the engine.
He pulleth over and calleth the man from the Roman Autocarriage Club. The man cometh and scratcheth his head muchly. Then he saith unto him, "Your head gasket hath gone, citizen". So he toweth it to the shed of the repaireth man and it was brought once more unto life.
The lesson I giveth you is that it was not the maker who was at fault. The car was of an age where things will begin to go wrong. Though the maker has made many similar cars all are unique. Not all will develop the same fault and many will never have any.
So is your Maker any less perfect? Had we not turned away would He not have created us all as unto perfection? Yet, through our sin, we are kept from Him and so have imperfections that He designeth not. Yet I say unto, there will come the day when we will be part of the Great Product Recall. Then we will be made perfect as per His prototype.
And then Jesus went out and caught the no. 53A with his disciples.
No matter what we think, God has not forgotten us but equally He is not the cause of things that happen in the world. When we disobeyed Him we were cast into a world without His intervention in every little matter. He still watches over us but, like any parent, leaves us to make our choices and mistakes.
Like a car we are made in the image of the designer's creation but, as we are made imperfectly, we have to manage with what we have. It is not God's fault that the imperfections are there.
Merry Christmas to you all. May the love of Jesus be with you all at this time and into the future.