Comments on: If…then https://www.cordeo.org.uk/if-then/ Biblical Training Programme Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:04:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Ron Frost https://www.cordeo.org.uk/if-then/comment-page-1/#comment-11908 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:04:03 +0000 http://www.cordeo.org.uk/?p=1932#comment-11908 Thanks for the responses Carmen & Dave. It’s such a powerful book . . . the more often I read it, the more often I’m reminded that God’s ways are very different than we might expect: and I much prefer God to Santa! God loves us.

Merry Christmas!

]]> By: David Dexter https://www.cordeo.org.uk/if-then/comment-page-1/#comment-11906 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 08:12:49 +0000 http://www.cordeo.org.uk/?p=1932#comment-11906 Thanks for that very helpful piece. I have just started Job in my read through this morning, so just the right time to be reading it.

]]> By: Carmen Bryant https://www.cordeo.org.uk/if-then/comment-page-1/#comment-11905 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 04:25:35 +0000 http://www.cordeo.org.uk/?p=1932#comment-11905 Right on. How often do we hear Christians complain, “I wish I knew what God is trying to teach me so that this suffering will be over.” The implied assumption is that God causes us to be miserable either because we have been naughty instead of nice, or because he is trying to teach us something–only he doesn’t tell us what the lesson is about. We’re supposed to discover it on our own. A further implication is that when we’ve learned our lesson, God will back off and leave us alone. The God of the Scriptures is very different–One who speaks clearly through his Word and the Spirit, one whose love is all-prevailing, one who wants to walk with us at all times, one who lives in us and we in him.

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