8023	Forums / Main Forum / The Issue Of Contentment	on: January 17, 2007, 07:57:55 AM
There is nothing wrong with complaining. I agree that the blame for things that we go through are a result of our own sin and the sin of those around us. Wicked men are busy with their schemes and after two hundred plus yrs of our countries history the schemes are deep and wide. The net has been laid and the traps are all around us. Just look at the rapid rate of abortions, the marriage crisis, the decrease of the middle class, and the rise of religious pharisee ism and all of these forces are pushing in on the younger generation and even our generation. These traps are real and there is a price to pay. Yet God is absolutely sovereign. He is in control of every thing that goes on in our lives. The best thing to do is to pray. Usually our reasoning falls short at this point in our complaining. We know He is God in an intellectual way, but we are not persevering in prayer so that we know that at any moment He is able to change our circumstances and lighten our burden. Because of technology we are used to dealing with all of the trials of our lives in an impersonal way. The impersonal deli-ma we are faced with is just as dangerous as the traps of the world because the impersonal feelings that we have are part of the lack of faith in a personal God. The impersonal world of technology creates in us the mindset of the world in which we are susceptible to living in guilt, fear ,and blame. In the theological world view were are brought near to a personal God. In this paradigm the pleasure of experiencing the power of God is more important than dwelling on the moral implications of a situation. The impersonal world is a world of compromises, of a detailed plan of integrated moral propositions in the accountability paradigm. It is an intricately woven moral pharisee ism with the law as as the central power. That is why when dealing with one another in the biblical theological world view , we are dealing with a personal God who is praised as a way of getting along with one another. As we sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, we are speaking to one another in a personal way because we have and understanding that God is God!