If you have the answers, then you tell me.
But if you don't, and I'm not trying to be mean, then try listening.
I would hardly call what I believe, "Modern...", but frankly, I could care less what lables anyone puts on me or my doctrines.
And regardless of that, to me the important thing to finding and receiving truths, is to seek God with a pure heart, desiring to know without holding on to your babies and biases. (babies- that which you hold dear to you, such as OSAS)
God is indeed sovereign, but He also watches over and hastens to perform His word.
And because of that, He has to do what He said He would do. If He doesn't, then He lied. And God CANNOT lie.
And because of that, Paul calls it a law, such as the law of faith or life in Christ Jesus.
A law works the same way every time, without fail. And it never fails to work as it was designed.
If it did, then it would cease to be a law.
And God is the one who uphold ALL things. That would include ALL laws, both physical and spiritual.
For example, in Mk 11:23, the word of God says (paraphrasing), 'that whosoever shall say or speak to whatsoever, and believe in their heart that what they have said shall come to pass without any doubt, they shall have whatsoever they said'.
That is what is written, and that is what will be done, for it is the will of God.
The problem is that it can be for both good or bad, for blessing or cursing.
Even as He said, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they... shall eat the fruit thereof."
Whose tongue is it that God says has the power of both death and life?
That would be our tongue.
Where is God's will in that which proceeds out of our mouths.
His will is to create the fruit of our lips. His will is that a man shall eat the fruit of his mouth and his belly shall be filled with that fruit with the increase of his lips.
Did God say that His people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge and vision, for nothing. Can't He do anything about what happens to us? If He can, then why doesn't He? And why tell us that a lack of knowledge is why we are destroyed?
We not only reap what we sow by our doing, which God upholds, but equally by our saying or speaking.
Even as a good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth or causes that which he said or spoke, to manifest itself in the natural, so in like manner, an evil or corrupt man, having deposited evil or corrupt things or treasure in his heart, such as thinking that the WOF is a lie and of the devil, causes evil, bad, or corrupt things that he said or spoke to manifest itself in the natural as well.
This applies to not only the unbelievers, but the believers as well.
What do most people say when they start feeling symptoms of a cold or flu coming on them? They say, "I have the cold or I have the flu". They just agreed with the devil, and accepted the cursed for themselves.
For, out of the abundance of his heart, which is where the forces of life flow from, his mouth speaks.
So in light of that, I say that many have spoken to their own hurt and to that of their loved ones.
Deu 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Whose choice is it to receive life or death, blessing or cursing?
Isn't it God's will for them to have life, and that's why He told them to choose life?
Then why is the outcome dependent on what we choose to say and do?
Is it going to be any different for us, seeing God is no respecter of persons?
I could go on as to say why, on most accounts, we are to blame for what happens to ourselves and loved ones later in our lives.
When we were younger, not so much us, but God still visits the sins of the fathers on the children as He did back then. He doesn't change.
There are many factors involved in such things, aside from the ones I mentioned, but at the very least, we should search our hearts to see if there is any fault in us and look to God and Jesus, His Word, for deliverance.
