Author	Thread: Let God deal with it...
Admin	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 08:47 AM I was having my morning coffee this morning and a concept occurred to me, but first a little back story. Earlier this morning I was in facebook, and my sister IM'd me. She had seen a post about my unborn baby. Long story short, and this is not all of it, but alot of it is personal and I am only sharing what is PERTINENT to this post. She asked me to come back to my home town. I told her I would not do so, and she told me that I needed to reconcile with my family. I was sexually abused when I was a kid by my adoptive father. I eventually came forward and as often the case goes with this type of situation, it was swept under the rug. I left my home city at the age of 19 and never looked back. She asked me this morning why I refused to come home and bring the baby with me and I told her because of what happened with dad and I would not bring my child around that kind of situation. She replied that she would not listen to that, that her dad had never done anything like that, that I was crazy and lying and had made it all up. Now this in and of itself is not the issue, as I realize that this is how they think and react to this and has always been the reaction. The ISSUE came up when she told me that she "lets her children be there alone with him all the time." This greatly distrubed me. The thought crossed my mind..."great, I come forward, tell everyone what he did, he even ADMITTED it to my mother, they hide it, deny it, HE GETS AWAY WITH IT, then my sister who has been TOLD that this happened is now putting her children in an unsupervised situation with this guy. The thought crossed my mind, that if he has been found out that this happened, ADMITTED IT WITH HIS OWN MOUTH, and they hid it for him and he got away with it, what is to stop him from taking that situation as "well I can do it again because I wont get caught and even if I do they will just say it never happened and hide it for me". Very terrifying thought. Worse yet, I realized, OH NO, my sisters are IGNORING this, my family is ignoring it, and these children, their kids, are being left UNPROTECTED by their MOTHERS and FAMILY. Legally no action can be taken due to a "statue of limitations" about what happened with me. I had asked a lawyer and the lawyer said they could not take a legal action due to that. So, the law can not protect these kids because they can not take action for something that happened so long ago, AND ON TOP OF IT, now my family and these children's mothers are NOT protecting them either. WHO is left to protect these kids?! So I did the only thing I knew how to do. I got in prayer request and I briefly explained that there was a situation and I was afraid that NO ONE was protecting these children and I wanted everyone to pray because if the HUMANS in these kid's lives refused to listen or acknowledge a problem or take action to protect them, who else was left to protect them but God? The room did pray thank God. But I was also told by those in chat, to "forget about it and focus on how good Jesus is." THIS is why I am posting. Now I am a Christian and I get that Jesus is good. But WHEN DID IT BECOME OK TO SMILE AT THE MENTION OF A SERIOUS PROBLEM LIKE CHILD ABUSE AND SAY, OH DONT WORRY ABOUT IT JESUS WILL TAKE CARE OF IT? When did we as a human race, turn prayer into an EXCUSE to ignore the ugliness of our world, NOT take ACTION against it, and "put it all on god?" When did we decide that we could look the other way and not do something about the bad in life, because "jesus will take care of it?' When did we decide to hide our responsibility to actually take a role in making the world a better place behind our faith? How would you feel if you walked down the street today, and got hit by a car, needed an ambulence and were lying there bleeding to death. Two people walk by and you ask them to help you. To call someone. And they look at each other and say, "dont worry dear, we prayed, and jesus will take care of you" and smile and walk away? Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 08:54 AM The truth is simply this unless the lord tells you to do something in the natural, don't do it. It is not putting it off on him to commned the situation to him, if you put it in his hands atrust him he will surely do something. Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 08:59 AM Or rather the short version, WHEN did it become ok to smile, pray, and then say, its ok, jesus will take care of it? When did we decide to hide behind Christ? When did it become ok to use God as an excuse to NOT actively do something and make changes to our lives and world? And worse yet, I see people all the time, they will have a situation, PRAY about it, smile, say God will take care of it, DO NOTHING ABOUT THE SITUATION, and then when nothing happens to fix it, its GODS FAULT? I am reminded of a joke I once heard. There is a flood and a guy is on the ground, and he prays, Lord save me. And a little while later a car comes by and rescue team says hey do you need help? He says no its ok god will save me. And later he is treading water and prays and a boat comes and the rescue team says, do you need help? He says no its ok god will save me. Still later he is on a roof and prays and a plane comes, again, do you need help, no god will save me. He drowns. He gets to heaven and asks god, WHY DIDNT YOU SAVE ME LORD? And god says, I SENT YOU A CAR, A BOAT, AND A PLANE! WE NEED TO BE THAT CAR BOAT AND PLANE, NOT THE GUY ON THE GROUND SMILING AND SAYING GOD WILL SAVE ME. Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:03 AM I think that that is an awful convenient excuse to use to be let off the hook of responsibility and use God as an excuse to get ourselves off that hook. Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:04 AM The analogy does not apply to what you said. You are implying the lord needs your help. If he needs your help he will tell you. When you are trusting him your heart will be full of Joy. Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:09 AM I was not implying God needs our help. What I am saying is since when did "God doesnt need our help" become "we dont have do do anything" Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:14 AM Jh 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 1Jo 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:22 AM I realize that in this particular situation there was nothing I could do but leave it in Gods hands. I'm saying that it got me thinking about how many times do we use the same principle to apply to something we SHOULD be doing something about? The situation got me thinking "well i know only God can deal with this one, but I wonder how many times there have been situations where, people COULD have done something but instead said, let god deal with it?" Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:29 AM Though I do admit that I was tempted for a minute to call CPS and explain that I had TOLD my sisters what had happened and that my sister admitted to me that she leaves her kids unsupervised even after I told her, and ask that they be aware of that. Lord told me not to do that and I didn't but I was tempted to. Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:33 AM Theophannia Please do not listen to PEEj. He only makes sense with himself,as no one is able to decipher his jargon. Oh please do not answer his ridiculous replies. Shalom Post Reply
View Profile History	Let God deal with it... Posted : 17 Jan, 2012 09:46 AM Thank God Believer's do not have to make Sense. The unbeliever's thrive in the sense business. Post Reply

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