[color:red]My prayer is: Father I pray that thou would give me an understanding not that I could consume it upon my lusts but that I could know thee better. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.</font color=red><br><br>The God of heaven never does anything "bad" to anyone, i.e., that everything the Lord does and says is righteous. [color:blue](UNDERSTOOD)</font color=blue> Any affliction which anyone experiences is due to the fall and they being partakers of it. The man born blind, who by God's providence, suffered with that affliction not due to any personal or particular sin, could not find fault with God. [color:blue](UNDERSTOOD)</font color=blue>For even then, it was for God's ultimate glory and that man's "good" that this was decreed. [color:blue](HOW IS IT GOODNESS AND NOT HIS PROVIDENCE?)</font color=blue> Even the damnation of the wicked is an expression of God's goodness (this may be something you have never considered?) and of His inexorable holiness. [color:blue](TELL ME MORE HOW IS THIS GOODNESS? I UNDERSTAND GOD RECIEVES THE GLORY)</font color=blue> Once an individual begins to comprehend the goodness [color:blue](PROVIDENCE?)</font color=blue> of God, even while the world is crashing down around and upon him, he will lift up his voice and declare with the patriarch Job: <br><br>Job 13:15 "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him."<br><br>[color:blue]As of late (subject to change) I have believed that providence is neither good or bad until……<br><br>Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:<br> 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:</font color=blue><br>In Peace Yankee