When People Go Bad
Perfection gone wrong! This book is a revelation of how our whole world ended up in the mess we have now. It could be called Revelation.
This book answers many of the questions we have about why there is suffering in the world and has something to say about why God allows it. God created a perfect world and humans to live in it and everything he made is good. As we all know it all went wrong when Adam and Eve decided they needed to know the difference between good and evil and the serpent convinced them that God was holding out on them. Death and sin came into the perfect world and it has been a battle ever since.
Yet in Genesis we see a series of stories of people messing up big time and God still working out his plan in their lives. God promises Abraham a child yet he tells a king his wife is sister and the king takes her as his own wife, he sleeps with his wifes servant in the hope of getting a child and then he gives another king his wife to try and cover his own butt. Seriously…. but still at a ridiculously old age God gives him a child but his wife Sarah and the history of a nation starts. The history of redemption is a step closer.
This book is full of messed up people and still God finds ways to make sure that his plans still work out. God uses messy, messed up people to work out his plan of redemption.
It becomes more and more clear as I read through this book that God knows the beginning from the end, he knows the plans he has for peoples lives and will work them out regardless of their mistakes, sin or the injustices that happen to them.
So it is safe to say the people God uses are not chosen because they are so amazing and wonderful but because they show through God’s interactions in their lives that GOD IS AMAZING AND GRACIOUS and that he can redeem anyone and anything.
This world is full of suffering but God is and does bring redemption and life.
