PROVERBS 15: 27-33 (GOD DELIGHTS IN OUR PRAYERS).PSALM 70: 1-5 (A SHORT PRAYER FOR HELP).PSALM 27: 1-7 (WHY SHOULD I BE AFRAID?).PORNOGRAPHY’S PAIN (WHO GETS HURT BY THIS “HARMLESS” PASTIME?).
60 THINGS GOD SAID ABOUT SEX (SEX & THE SOUL).60 THINGS GOD SAID ABOUT SEX (GOD’S WORD FOR “GAYS”).60 THINGS GOD SAID ABOUT SEX (SEX AND THE BODY).The torments suffered by disobedient and rebellious peoples in previous centuries show that man is not left to his own devices, and that he is always subject to the blows that God’s splendour and majesty may choose to inflict on him. It sometimes happens too that punishment is enacted in this world. These matters are therefore deferred for the attention of a supreme tribunal it is not that they are neglected. For generally the oppressor leaves this world while still in possession of his might, and the oppressed while still subjected to humiliation. There must in addition be a realm of punishment appropriate to God’s glory and dignity. For irrevocable death would transform compassion into disaster, love into affliction, blessing into vengeance, intellect into a tool of misery, and pleasure into pain, so that the very essence of God’s mercy would vanish. One would otherwise have to deny the existence of the mercy that is visible to us, and this would be like denying the existence of the sun that fills every day with its light. There must therefore be a realm of blessedness appropriate to that generosity and worthy of that mercy. Now in this transitory world and brief life, only a millionth part of all this, like one drop from the ocean, establishes and manifests itself. Since the master of this world has, then, such infinite generosity, mercy, splendour and glory, it follows that His infinite glory and splendour require the chastisement of the discourteous that His infinite generosity requires infinite bounty, and His infinite mercy requires a bestowal of favour worthy of itself. It is also apparent that the fashion in which all mothers, in the vegetable, animal and human realms, succour their weak and powerless infants with the delicate nurture of milk, in tender compassion, is a manifestation of God’s all-embracing mercy. Then, too, the fact that, with the exception of man and certain wild animals, all things, from the sun, the moon and earth to the smallest of creatures, perform their functions with the utmost exactitude, do not overstep their bounds by an inch, and observe a universal obedience in a spirit of great awe - this shows that they act by the command of a Possessor of great glory and dignity. It is self-evident that all of this is the effect of a most beauteous generosity, a most delicate sense of mercy. Similarly, we are given wholesome and sweet honey to eat, from the hand of the bee with its sting we are clothed in the finest and softest of clothes by means of an insect that has no hands and within a small seed a great treasure of mercy is preserved for us. This largesse and bounty is distributed with such lofty generosity that a hand of infinite generosity is manifestly at work.įor example, in the spring, all the trees are garbed in clothes as fine as silk, just like the houris in Paradise they are encrusted with flowers and fruits, as if with jewels, and caused to offer us numerous varieties of the choicest fruits, on branches delicately outstretched like the hands of a servant. Is it at all possible that the Lord of this world, Who in His works demonstrates infinite generosity, infinite mercy, infinite splendour and infinite glory, should not give reward in a manner befitting His generosity and mercy, and not punish in a manner befitting His splendour and glory? If one looks at the disposition of affairs in this world, one sees that all animate beings -from the weakest to the most powerful- are given some fitting form of sustenance.Indeed, the weakest and most powerless are given the best form of sustenance. The Manifestation of the Names of Generous and Merciful On Resurrection And The Hereafter-The Gate of Generosity and Mercy
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