Inverted humanity

 Jesus is recorded having said something to the effect of: You are cared for more than birds, each whose departure does not go unnoticed by God The Father.  Do not worry about your needs.  Seek God foremost and He will take care of your needs.  

I was thinking about how death happens in this world and that God doesn't necessarily issue a hit on each dead man. He's aware and considers all potential outcomes and if someone who wanted to serve God was in a position to do a Great thing for His kingdom was wanted dead and God's typical methods -- providing insight and discernment -- were not being recognized, or if God just wanted to shock people into humility..., He could stop a blade or a bullet dead in its' tracks.  We, humans, for the most part, are disposable.  Many many many will refuse God.  They will choose to die in their sin. Some would have lived eternally by God's grace had only we, Christians, loved others as Christ loved us and boldly proclaimed His Greatness by any means possible.  Most simply either refuse Him or they receive Him on their own terms and end up drifting away because it's not their cup of tea ultimately.

Take for instance Job.  Job had a lifelong diligence toward living as God instructed.  He sought God.  If he hadn't walked toward God and so firmly embraced Him, God would not have ever been inclined to approach Job face to face and point out the wonder and beauty of His majestic creation and the error in His temptation to second guess God.  He gave Job a stern and convincing rebuke because He knew Job WANTED it.  True, Job didn't particularly rejoice the experience in the moment but he wasn't unwilling to take a smack in the face from The Lord Almighty if it meant a deeper understanding of Him.  Large pockets of land scattered throughout this "Christian nation" are filled with people who either have no intention of hearing Him or who have heard Him and like the religious leadership of the Jewish people in the days of Jesus, are using the power of God's Word for their own personal gain and to the disadvantage of others.

The sad fact - that God will not put up with forever - is that His Creation, most of it, is unrepentant of its' crooked and perverse ways.  Humanity has taken whatever roads seem right and when given insight as to why things don't turn out quite right they either understate the problem or they gravitate away from God despite knowing there is a viable solution found in the knowledge of a sovereign God.