What God Allows!

 

Surely God knew beforehand that Lucifer the archangel would rebel and sin against Him, take one third of the angels with him and then in turn deceive His creation and cause them millenia of suffering because of their fallen state?

He could have stopped it all couldn't He? But He allowed it!!

Genesis 3:8-13

"And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

God allows many things to happen in this world that He certainly could stop, but then I have to remember the scripture that says, "My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts"

Isaiah 55:8

The phrase "my ways are not your ways" is found in Isaiah 55:8, which states, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. This verse emphasizes the difference between divine and human understanding, highlighting that God's ways and thoughts are beyond human comprehension. (Bible Hub)

God allowed Abraham to lay with Hagar the maid of his wife!

Genesis 16:1-4

"Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan. So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became despised in her eyes."

God could have spoke to Abraham directly as He had done many times and told him don't listen to your wife, your promise child is coming! But God allowed it!

God allowed Joseph to be sold into slavery and be sent to a prison for a crime he did not commit, and stayed there for years before he was finally released to become the right hand man of Pharaoh.

Genesis 37:23-28

"So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt. So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers listened. Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt."

God allowed David to sin against Him with Bathsheba! 

2nd Samuel 12:7-12

"Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’ ”

At any time before David's sin, He could have spoken directly to Him and told him to wake up, don't do this evil you are thinking in your heart! He could have sent Nathan the prophet to stop him from sending Uriah to the battle to be killed, but He didn't, God allowed it!!!

God gives us a comand from His mouth and we have a choice to obey or not, we have the scriptures in the bible that were supernaturally preserved by God Himself so we can have His written word to read, study, and apply to our daily lives. But we have the choice to be wise and put His word into practice, or be foolish and hear the message, but not do anything about it!

Yes, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts! But when a promise is made or a commandment is given by God, we have a choice to listen, obey, and wait on Him no matter what we go through inbetween the promise and the fulfillment.

Our choices will determine our blessings or curses!

In Christ,

Tyrone