DISEASE AND GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY
Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29:11-12, Deuteronomy 32:39, Proverbs 16:4, Ecclesiastes 7:14
Disease and God's Sovereignty
Robert Dawson
1 Chronicles 29: 11-12, Deuteronomy 32:39, Proverbs 16: 4, Ecclesiastes 7:14
Welcome to our Sunday Morning Bible Study! I'd much rather be looking you in the face than you simply looking at mine! Even though we are not where we want to be, we all understand why we are where we are this morning. I'm already looking forward to gathering with my faith family again.
Periodically we come face to face with events so large, devastating, frightening and beyond our control, that questions start to form in our minds, whether we want them to or not. They wiggle their way into our consciousness. This is one of those times.
- COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, has dominated global, national and local headlines as close to 210,000 cases, almost 9,000 deaths in 166 countries have occurred.
- It has overwhelmed the health system in most every country it has invaded.
- In addition to the health crisis, the Coronavirus has given birth to international finger pointing, widespread public panic and untold economic devastation as national economies have ground to a screeching halt causing a different set of fears and sufferings.
A sweeping pandemic like this invites questions. They usually centered around the words, ''why'' and ''what.''
- We want to know, ''why this,'' ''why now'' and, ''why me?''
- We want to know ''what is happening,'' ''what is going to happen,'' ''what is the extent of the damage,'' and ''what do I need to do?''
We could on and on with questions focused on ''why'' and ''what,'' but not all our questions are about virus spread, treatment, vaccines, quarantines, social distancing, government response or the economic fallout but the nature of God.
- We want to know how to process, think about and reconcile what is going on right in front of us, what appears to be the senseless and mindless suffering that comes as a result of a global pandemic, with God's presence, power, goodness and providence.
- ...
Robert Dawson
1 Chronicles 29: 11-12, Deuteronomy 32:39, Proverbs 16: 4, Ecclesiastes 7:14
Welcome to our Sunday Morning Bible Study! I'd much rather be looking you in the face than you simply looking at mine! Even though we are not where we want to be, we all understand why we are where we are this morning. I'm already looking forward to gathering with my faith family again.
Periodically we come face to face with events so large, devastating, frightening and beyond our control, that questions start to form in our minds, whether we want them to or not. They wiggle their way into our consciousness. This is one of those times.
- COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, has dominated global, national and local headlines as close to 210,000 cases, almost 9,000 deaths in 166 countries have occurred.
- It has overwhelmed the health system in most every country it has invaded.
- In addition to the health crisis, the Coronavirus has given birth to international finger pointing, widespread public panic and untold economic devastation as national economies have ground to a screeching halt causing a different set of fears and sufferings.
A sweeping pandemic like this invites questions. They usually centered around the words, ''why'' and ''what.''
- We want to know, ''why this,'' ''why now'' and, ''why me?''
- We want to know ''what is happening,'' ''what is going to happen,'' ''what is the extent of the damage,'' and ''what do I need to do?''
We could on and on with questions focused on ''why'' and ''what,'' but not all our questions are about virus spread, treatment, vaccines, quarantines, social distancing, government response or the economic fallout but the nature of God.
- We want to know how to process, think about and reconcile what is going on right in front of us, what appears to be the senseless and mindless suffering that comes as a result of a global pandemic, with God's presence, power, goodness and providence.
- ...
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