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Does God Have a Plan, and are Current Events a Part of it?
Dawn Blundell, Epworth United Methodist Church
Senior Pastor
In-Person worship Sunday mornings at 9:00 am, sermon live at 9:30 am on Facebook Live and KVLV AM980. For more info, please call 775-423-4714 or visit www.epworthfallon.org
Ultimately, God’s plan is for every last bit of evil to be destroyed, for love to reign, and for God’s amazing, perfect garden kingdom to come to earth. Can’t happen soon enough. Between then and now, though, is a lot of messy stuff that I will confess I do not have the answer to. The Bible tells us, and we know, that people have free will and sometimes choose to be just awful in ways that are definitely not part of God’s plan. Then there is illness and accident, pain and loss of all kinds…those things are part of the natural world, but pain and hardship are not given to us by a vengeful or careless God to hurt us. What IS God’s plan, I believe, is to love us into wholeness; to overwhelm us with beauty, goodness, wonder, and truth; and to guide us to perfection in love.
Aaron Sorensen, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Fallon South Stake President
For more info, please call 775-742-9040 or visit www.churchofjesuschrist.org
As we face trials, we often think, “Why me?” or, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Despite the challenges we face here on earth, we know we have a Father in Heaven who has a plan for each one of us. Our goal is to return to live with him after this life. As we face the challenges of mortality, these experiences mold us into the people He wants us to become. Sometimes those challenges are personal, sometimes those challenges are worldwide, such as a global pandemic. We can let trials humble us and draw us closer to God or we can harden our hearts. If we learn from our trials the Master can sculpt us into His fine work of art.
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