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 IN the next 24hrs GOD Will Surprise You Financially. If you believe, type: YES.

I saw this silliness in a Facebook feed just moments before my mission contacted me to tell me that my account is in the RED! I laughed out loud! 


Those posts are made to help us see how ridiculous we are when we click on them or send an AMEN! I hope that you don't. So many somehow believe that God is a gene type that will spring from the bottle when we press our praying hands emoji together and send us just enough money to prove that he has everything under control. 


Job was a just man that proved that Facebook can be wrong now and again. He did all things well and lost everything. He was left muttering and sputtering along with his cheesy friends for most of his epic poem book. 


Life happens, and we don't know why God does much of what he does. A friend of ours is in stage four cancer, and everything seems to be going wrong. What is up what that? Another friend's little girl has been suffering health issues since she was born a few years ago. Why? Yet another couple we know lost their 22-year-old daughter in a car accident just last week. Where was God in all of this? 


Is it wrong for us to ask him what went wrong? No! It's not bad. It's human. We may request, and friends may offer lame answers, but we must never blame God for wrongdoing. He always does right, even when it doesn't seem so good. We may never know the answers to our questions and pleas, but we must learn to trust his understanding. 

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