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"There's a reason for everything?" - 2/11/2010 6:28:42 PM
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stampinlady
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How do you repsond to this ?
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/11/2010 7:11:00 PM
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Everything happens for a reason 
There is no coincidences in life. The Lord said His will happen whether we willfully participate in it or not.
Think about it, He can even use the unsaved to help fulfill His plan.
Just like there is a 'reason' for every season
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/11/2010 7:40:18 PM
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The 'reasons' are opportunities to come further into His obedience/vulnerability. We tends to equate 'reasons' with 'answers'. The 'answer' isn't the issue obedience despite the answer(reason)is.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/12/2010 7:55:58 AM
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stampinlady
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Everything happens for a reason
That's the way you say it. I knew I had it wrong.
No, I do not believe in coincidence's BUT I do believe that everytime I'm late for work I have missed an accident or something tragic. I'm late for work because I don't make the time to be on time. I'm gonna look this saying up on Google becuase it seems rather "new agey."
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/12/2010 8:20:08 AM
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Well, the Lord said so himself in Ecclesiastes:
Ecclesiastes 3
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Either people believe this as truth or they do not.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/12/2010 12:25:02 PM
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stampinlady
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Well, the Lord said so himself in Ecclesiastes:
I guess I just see it differently;
Nasb says: 'There is an appointed time for everything and there is a time for every event under heaven.
- a time, a season.
If u continue reading the list you'll see it gives particular "seasons" in our lives. I no longer give birth so my "birthing" season is done.
I don't see this as saying because I'm late for work most of the time there's a reason for this?
Maybe I'm thinking too deep or out there on this.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/12/2010 4:42:33 PM
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Plenty of things happen just because we live in a fallen world.
That's not to say that God can't use everything for His glory - because He most definitely CAN! He can turn curses into blessings.
But that doesn't mean to say He makes everything happen.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/12/2010 5:13:44 PM
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No, I do not believe in coincidence's BUT I do believe that everytime I'm late for work I have missed an accident or something tragic.
I think most of the time 'the reason' is our own fault, our bent to sin and to love self more than God. So I stay in bed a few minutes longer. Instead of knowing and living and doing as unto the Lord. If the job meant showing up at Jesus' place of business, would you sleep in, or be late for the myriad of other reasons? No.
There is a reason for everything. Some is beyond our understanding. Some is so simple we fail to see it. Some requires pointing the finger of blame squarely at myself. And perhaps sometimes it has been a God intervention.
But He is God and He knows. And I don't really have to. (Unless He brings conviction and I need to make a change.)
Those are my thoughts, deb.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/13/2010 11:50:18 AM
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I believe it's safer to say that we don't know lest we look like fools.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/13/2010 8:31:21 PM
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As I sit here and ponder this thought, I do believe that everything has a reason, right down to the smallest of details, why? because if God knows the very number of hairs on my head< certainly He has planned the very last detail of each occurrence in my life and yours.
His ways are not our ways. We don't have to understand the why's, we just have to believe.
This is not to say that He makes bad things happen. I don't believe that. I do however, believe in free will and that He does not interfere when we make bad choices or necessarily prevents bad things from happening.
We can think something is bad or tragic only to watch God move mightily after the fact. Again, His ways are not our ways. We just don't think like He does.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/13/2010 9:53:44 PM
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I think it's part of the reformed/Calvinistic way of thinking--that everything that happens, even locking my keys in the van, was part of God's will and plan. And who knows--maybe I avoided an accident because I couldn't leave at the time I planned. God knows everything. Still, I think sometimes things just happen. And while God can and certainly does use those times, I think it over-spiritualizes things sometimes. My son snapped the nose piece of his glasses just as we got home from Walmart. It would have been handy if he'd snapped them off on the way up, so we could have got them fixed while we were up there. We'll get them fixed, not a big deal, but I'm not entirely convinced that there was a spiritual reason behind it.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/14/2010 9:15:12 AM
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To be perfectly frank, a lot of everyday, mundane stuff that happens is due to my own stupidity.
If I forgot to mail a check...it's because I forgot to mail a check. If my kids are talking to me while I'm trying to write or figure something and I make a mistake it's because I can't listen to them and think at the same time. If I burn supper it's because I got involved with something and didn't pay attention to it. If I slip and fall on the ice it's because it was icy.
If I'm late, it's because I don't leave early enough. I know that because I am consistently late because I consistently don't leave early enough. If it happened rarely, then I might think that possibly I was held back to avoid something. If, as I go through town, all the lights are green I say "Thank you, God" because it was a happy, serendipitous thing. But if some or all are red I don't assume I'm going to miss being in an accident because I had to stop.
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/14/2010 4:03:02 PM
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ORIGINAL: CoeurdeLeon
To be perfectly frank, a lot of everyday, mundane stuff that happens is due to my own stupidity.
If I forgot to mail a check...it's because I forgot to mail a check. If my kids are talking to me while I'm trying to write or figure something and I make a mistake it's because I can't listen to them and think at the same time. If I burn supper it's because I got involved with something and didn't pay attention to it. If I slip and fall on the ice it's because it was icy.
If I'm late, it's because I don't leave early enough. I know that because I am consistently late because I consistently don't leave early enough. If it happened rarely, then I might think that possibly I was held back to avoid something. If, as I go through town, all the lights are green I say "Thank you, God" because it was a happy, serendipitous thing. But if some or all are red I don't assume I'm going to miss being in an accident because I had to stop.
That's pretty much the view I take on things, too. Although today when I slipped on the ice, missed two steps, and landed on my feet, even though I was wearing high heels, I thanked God for it! :)
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/14/2010 7:25:15 PM
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I don't think they necessarily have to be because of spiritual reasoning's. Maybe they are just lessons we need to learn or maybe it is spiritual. Kind of like God fine tunes us.
Using C2G's example of her son snapping his glasses. What was the frustration level? Did you blow up? Is it a test of how well you have learned patience? Is it an indicator that God has more refining to do of you in that area?
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Wow! I really needed to hear this! I recently bought a new pair of glasses. ($$$) I had to take them back because they forgot to bevel the edges.
Then I had to wait days for them to get them back so I could pick them up. I got them home and noticed a scratch on the lenses! (I have not even worn them for one day yet!)
To tell you the truth, I cried...
I Prayed and could not think of any reason for this to happen...
Until I read this post, and now I am humbled before God...
(I see that He has a lot of beveling and polishing to do still in me!)
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RE: "There's a reason for everything?" - 2/15/2010 12:31:18 AM
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God is Sovereign. This means he knows and controls ALL. Our thoughts and actions. The wind. His allowing things to occur are part of this allowing and sovereignty. God created absoloutely EVERYTHING you can see, smell, think, imagine or even try to use against him. "Been there done that" doesn't even cover His sovereignty. "Is going to do", "has the power to do", "can do", "You can bet He will do", "already did do (repeatedly even)" almost sums up the power of God.
So yes. I truly believe there is a reason for everything. But we as humans just don't get the fact we aren't supposed to know HIS reasons/timing of it all.
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