The Power XI

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”  [Isa. 45.7]

I say the statement is “curious” because of the “create evil” part.  Some say “create the possibility of evil”.  I won’t.  I do have a problem with God creating evil, so I default to my framework - He has His purpose in everything.  We do not live in the “Garden”.  Who would really want a life like that anyway?  We would remain immature babies if life was wonderful and easy all the time.

Consider the evil scenario of older brothers selling their younger brother into slavery.  Then, lying to their father saying the brother is dead.  For all intents and purposes that brother was dead, never to be seen again.  Consider if Joseph was your child.

Well, how did Joseph ultimately deal with that situation?  When reunited with his brothers many years later, and those brothers fearing for their lives, Joseph said, “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.”  [Gen. 45 .5]

More on that in Part XII