I love my mother with a majority of my heart.... she is my favorite person in this existence... we often have disagreements religiously ... she being a devout Christian and I , simply a man that seeketh truth wherever it may be.... christianity , judaism, islam, buddhism, daoism, confucius, plato etc.. in all ways truth can be found but if one limits what they chose to hear...then a part of the truth in a different light is hidden.... So tonight while at her house i was reading the Torah... she said u need to read the Bible ....the truth is in the New Testament... i said well Jesus himself said i did not come to change one law said forth by Moses.. She said we live by the New Testament... So i said but much can be learned from the Torah so i read and read and i walked into her room and said listen to this, it is from the Torah.. The universe is governed by an all powerful personal God who intervenes in history to reward the righteous and punish the unjust. But why do the innocent suffer? Does God not hear their cries and prayers? Has he forsaken and abandoned us? Job, a blameless man,is wealthy and God fearing. In the Torah Satan is an angel beneath God. In a conversation with God, predicts that Job will surely drop his faith and blaspheme the Lord if he is stripped of all his possessions. With Gods assent, Satan destroys all that he has including his chldren and his health. When his children died Job said Naked came i and naked shall i return,the lord gives and the lord takes away , blessed is He.. Later job was stricken leprosy .... and at first cursed his own existence and Gods justice...surely all have , even Jesus when he cried out father have you forsaken me, please let this cup you have given me pass me, but let your will be done... But later Job acknowledges not only Gods power to control the world but also his wisdom, which is beyond Human understanding. God then rewards him with riches and more wealth than before the test. Debates over this ancient story continue. One interpretation is that Satan was cooperating with God in helping Job grow from fear of God to love of God. Another is that faith in God will always be in rewarded in this life , no matter how severe the temporary trials. Finally after i read all of that to her i read one final passage, Though I walk through a Valley of deepest darkness, I fear no harm, for you are with me... Before i could finish i began to think of all my hardships, where i am today....and my. Mothers tribulations when i was a child... and where she is and how she is persistent in her goals.... and i thought about my own doubts about those who suffer in the world.... like in Africa and so on.... and i sort of correlated it to Job..... its so similar.... so i started to cry and so i was sort of embarrassed, i am a 200 lb Nubian fierce soldier , so i hid my face in my hand ..... and i sobbed for a second thinking about all those suffering in the world and how i have been in dark places.... And so i gathered myself and continued.... The Holocaust have led some Jews to complain to God in anguish. They too feel close to God, but in a way to scream at God. In questioning the justice they God responsible for what is inexplicably monstrous. But even in.the Holocaust, there were those who remained faithful even as they walked into the gas chambers , they recited the hymn Ani Maamin: I believe with complete faith in the coming of the Messiah, and even though he may delay, nevertheless I anticipate every day that he will come. The Jews still await the coming of the prophesized Messiah.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:01:57 +0000
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