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To: pray4liberty
Truth is, we don't exactly get by without intervention.

How do you know? If God were intervening more, wouldn't it be apparent? I agree that we owe everything to God, but God is subtle. God placed us in a well designed universe and made us competent to survive and be happy in it. There's a mercy in that, but it's not an intervening kind of mercy. When I look back at all the jams I've been in, it's clear that what got me through was my actions or the actions of others. I see no evidence that God intervened. Nevertheless, I'm grateful to God because I think he pays attention to what I'm doing and is -- I don't know quite how to express it -- is infused within the things that happen in my life though he does not intervene. He is subtly and organically part of the flow of my life. If he does intervene, the interventions are so subtle that they aren't perceivable as interventions. Based on my experience, if you're looking for intervention you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

207 posted on 10/07/2007 3:44:01 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
How do you know?

The same way you know. It defies explanation, doesn't it?

208 posted on 10/07/2007 3:48:24 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: Yardstick
Well..maybe God's more, shall we say, dramatic with me than He is with you. Please understand, I am not disputing that your experience of Him is any less real than mine--only different. :)

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote that God loves us as much as he loves his greatest saints. That is a great comfort to me, especially when I fall down and fall short, which is to say, every day.

215 posted on 10/07/2007 3:57:21 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: Yardstick

The Bible makes it very clear to anyone who reads it through, that God emphatically intervenes in this world and in everyone’s lives all the time and with great precision, while, at the same time, not overwhelming people, individually, in their own free will to either accept or reject Him (through His Son, Jesus Christ).

God makes it abundantly clear that He intervenes all the time and directs everything, in this world, to their *intended* course of action and end-goal. All things work towards fulfilling His will, whether anyone actually knows or acknowledges it.

Regards,
Star Traveler


233 posted on 10/07/2007 5:54:17 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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