MAC KIRK

 Does it hurt God if we keep sinning ?     I have been looking at a series of questions that many ask . The last one was about, " why do all these things happen in the world that are not good"?  We answered that in the mackirk.blogspot.com link for Sept . 11 that talked about God working all things for our good and His glory despite what we see ( Romans 8:28 is the key verse for this). Loss is not in our plan, but God does have a plan. When we sin we hurt ourselves.  We also hurt God , and that should be an incentive to live and better godly lives in the power of His strength.  I had never thought of it that way before. We should first redefine what sin is.  Some see it as not hitting the mark as the arrow that misses the bullseye. Sin keeps us apart from God .  Psalm 66:18 , " If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." One of the best Confessions of Faith says"  sin is any want of conformity unto or transgression of t...

  What about the events that happen that we cannot explain? Perhaps this issue is at the heart of our faith as these kind of things seem to happen with regularity.  Someone we know dies, and either they are very young , and also generally good people in the spiritual realm.  We cannot fathom why this happens.   We usually go through the stages of grief in our loss. Our first reaction is shock.  I was returning from a visit to a local restaurant in another town near us when I heard the news.  My first reaction was disbelief.  How could this happen?  At some point in our feelings and thinking the other stages also appear... We feel anger , disappointment, bargaining and finally acceptance.  Yet most of us, being quite human, go through these stages again and again.   I thought of a book I have that began to help--- All Things for Good   by Thomas Watson.  Do all things happen for our good ?  That is the real q...