How might we be negatively influenced by our lack of understanding the Lord and His ways?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Failing to understand the ‘dealings’ of the Lord with His children—meaning His relations with and treatment of His children—is very fundamental. … In fact … this failure affects everything else!

“To misread something so crucial constitutes a failure to know God, who then ends up being wrongly seen as unreachable, uninvolved, uncaring, and unable—a disabled and diminished Deity, really—about whose seeming limitations, ironically, some then quickly complain … .

“By believing in such a disabled God, people can do pretty much as they please. It is then not many steps further to saying there is no God, therefore no law and no sin!” (Maxwell, “Lessons from Laman and Lemuel,” 6–7).

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