Serving the Lord in Leytonstone, London
It is sometimes said that God cannot be both all-good and all-powerful because if He was there would be no evil. So either He’s in favour of evil, or He can’t do anything about it. This passage shows Jeremiah wrestling with a version of that dilemma
James is drawing to a close. He has called Christians to desist from living life without faith: they trusted Jesus to save them; they must trust him still in the midst of trials.
Sometimes, we ask God to relieve our distresses and pains, but nothing changes. Why?
During his earthly life, Jesus’s half-brother, James, doubted him: Jesus did not act like a true Israelite king, as proven by his pointless suffering
David and his men had everything stolen from them, including their families. God told David to go rescue them. But God didn’t say which direction to go nor how it will be achieved.