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To: Forest Keeper; stfassisi; MarkBsnr; kosta50; irishtenor; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights
Indeed, man is not the measure of God.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? – Matthew 20:15

And again,

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? – Romans 8:20-24

Job, beloved of God, and his friends had been judging God using their own puny, mortal, minds as the measure of what is just and what is not. God confronts Job starting in chapter 38 and the confrontation ends in chapter 42 with Job confessing to speaking words without knowledge and repenting in dust and ashes.

Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee. Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes. – Job 42:1-6

Man is not the measure of God.

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

6,447 posted on 07/10/2008 6:36:35 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
To God be the glory, not man, never man.

AMEN, AG. Excellent post, and thanks for all the wonderful scriptures. :)

6,464 posted on 07/11/2008 2:27:05 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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