A child is born into this world with no expectations of what to expect and innocent to it's ways. He looks to The adults in his life for protection, security and soundness of life. But he is betrayed, by those he depended on. he does not understand what he has done or why he is being treated so badly. He is looking for expectance and the love that all children should have a right to. He is punished for no reason that he understands. he is never able to please those who are responsible for his well being. He lives in a world that is hell, not knowing what he did to deserve a life as a child that can not please those that constantly punish him. He is beaten and made to eat food he does not like, trying to understand, all the time his heart is breaking sobbing uncontrollable. He was beaten till his life was taken and his father dumped him down the hill by the river. The boy was about 3 years old. God's heart grieves over his children and has warned those who mistreat the innocence's of a child. This is only one of thousands of mistreated children who have looked up to the adults that oversee them. Even the full term abortion babies cries of pain as they are cut out of the womb piece by piece. The anger and wrath of God is upon all of those who have had no mercy, for they will receive no mercy. And how much more to those who are suppose to represent The Lord.
He is coming back!
Douglas Summers
I liked the OP and the issue is extremely important. It seems we, people, have a very poor understanding of what is going on though. We battle not with flesh and blood, but with the powers, principalities, and the dark forces of this world. We battle with evil spiritual beings. So why does a child get abused. Is it the people in his life of the evil powers, principalities, and dark forces?
And there is another thing: Vengeance is the Lord's. Yes, the Lord is going to come back in the flesh some day, but for now He sits at the right hand of God in the Kingdom of God. Yet that Kingdom is in our midst!!! It is in our midst now, and vengeance is His!! He does that. He takes vengeance, whether we realize it or not. This is not a thing that is going to happen, but happens and it happens now.
If we do read the Bible over and over we see the vengeance of God taking place. The prophets over and over explained this happens. God had the do it so the people might repent and start seeking Him. At times it seems like it is just for nations, but not so. You can easily find God vengeance taken on individual people in the Bible also. And again, all this happens today because He is still God. The Bible was written to explain this.
Micah 1: 2 Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth and all it contains. And let the Lord God be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple. For behold, the Lord is coming forth from His place. He will coming down and tread on the high places of the earth.
Notice in the above verse that it is to all people of all the earth. Of course if you don't listen to the Lord and hear what He is saying and the witness against you, you might not understand. That is the problem. People don't listen. They don't understand. They don't know that the Lord is coming forth from His place. That is He "is", as in right now, coming down from His place. So don't think that He won't take vengeance on you, because He will come down from His place in the Kingdom of God and do that!! So people suffer. They suffer at the hands of others.
People suffer because other people don't listen and seek the Lord and are influenced by evil spirits. We should have prayed more. Then people suffer because vengeance is the Lord's and if people come into agreement with evil spirit the Lord will come down and He indeed is coming down from His Holy place to tread on the high places you have in your life. He does that so you might repent.
This of course also applies to Christians. He made us a nation of priests. But check out this from Malachi, because it applies to that nation of priest.
Mal 2:2- " And now this commandment is for you, O priests. If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name, " says the Lord of hosts, "then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessing; and indeed,
I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.
The OP has very important information in it, including the part about
, "And how much more to those who are suppose to represent The Lord." Yeah, we need to listen and take it to heart to give honor to His name. Yet we havn't always, and so the Lord that said that vengeance was his, has already cursed our blessings at times, because we didn't take to heart. We are people, just like other people. We need to pray more and that includes listening to Him! Maybe we can make a dent in the problem discussed in the OP, because there are more with us than against us. We need to impart the information and ask the King to impart the Kingdom.