{"id":727,"date":"2013-07-17T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=727"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:48:58","slug":"questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ultimately the question is not going to be: Did you hate Britain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions, questions, questions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there too many questions?
Why can’t a bicycle stand up? It’s too tyred
What does a clock do when it is hungry? Go back for seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Have you heard about – or seen – The man who sued God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who can tell me what it is about in one sentence?
Might this is have been modelled on Job?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me tell you about one man who wanted to sue God, and then another time about another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So first of all we shall consider Job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job was very upset with God, and demanded an audience. Listen to him:
Job 23:1-8 (or so) Where is he! Why doesn’t he answer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose we could ask those questions, couldn’t we, when things are not going right, when we consider what a mess the world is in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How should God answer Job?
Should God tell him what he is doing?
Should God tell him why he is doing it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God has something different in mind to what we might think.
God wants Job to get the big picture right first,
then he might begin to understand the detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job 38 God starts to ask Job questions.
Job 40 He shows Job just how irrational he is being.
How Job contradicts himself in making his complaint:
If Job is right, then God is wrong (v8).
If God is wrong how can Job expect a fair hearing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job gets the picture Job 42:5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened to Job?
His outlook was turned around! He got a new way of looking at things.
Nothing changed overnight for Job, but he certainly saw things differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the same for us – when we come to Jesus,
he changes the way we look at things,
he changes our way of thinking.
We become new creatures in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things have passed away, and all has become \u00b4new. (2 Corinthians 5:17<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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