Everything has a purpose (New York, NY)

Everything has a purpose

Everything has a purpose a reason for existence. This is a KJV Bible study guide.Proverbs 16 4 The LORD hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil.Ecclesiastes 3 1 To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven Revelation 4 11 Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Scientists can study only what God has made. Concerning organs in living creatures they unavoidably ask What s it for When they cannot find an organ s purpose they label it vestigial like the appendix or junk like certain DNA segments. Some philosophers not unreasonably have pointed to the appendix and junk DNA as evidence against a Creator and in favor of purposeless evolution. (The appendix however does have a purpose. It is a safe house for good bacteria which repopulate our digestive system after an illness or a course of antibiotics. Junk DNA it is now known plays a vital part in the human genome.)Like a good engineer God made everything for a purpose. Sometimes the purpose is easy to figure out every sheepherder knows that the main purpose of a ram and ewe copulating is to get more lambs. The purpose of other things like the appendix take careful study and time to figure out. Some things God tells us we will never know because His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55 9) and some of His plans He keeps sealed until the end of time (Revelation 10 4). About some things in our fallen and corrupted world God gives us clues in His Word for example His purposes for wicked men like Joseph Stalin Hitler Putin Pol Pot etc.God made the wicked for the day of trouble. How so First God uses the wicked to punish His people s sin calling Assyria the rod of His anger (Isaiah 10) and using Babylon for the same purpose (Habbakkuk). Second the Lord also uses the wicked to show His justice and power when the time comes to call them to account. God talking to Pharaoh And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. (Exodus 9 16). God makes even the wrath of man to praise Him (Psalm 76 10).God s punishments of the wicked in this earth age eon are only partial and often they thrive for a long time. Why doesn t God destroy them completely all at once and leave the world clean He did that once in the Flood but evil survived because the human heart remained the same. Starting over again in a New World as the Puritans discovered never works as planned because the Old World always comes right along into the New. Second God does not remove evil people immediately because doing so may harm the righteous as Jesus taught in His parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13 24-30). (Recall what happened in Iraq to its Christian communities and many others after the United States decided to play God and uproot Iraq s atrocious dictator.) Third God is very patient thus He gives people time to repent see 2 Peter 3 9.Godly people therefore should not fret at the prosperity of the wicked (See Psalms 37 and 73 in their entirety). They have their purpose for the day of trouble sometimes bringing God s judgment on His straying people and sometimes bringing God s judgment down on themselves (Romans 9 22). God has made everything for its purpose even hurtful and unjust oppressors. God has a reason for everything good bad or otherwise It is really hard to see and understand most of the time but somehow everything fits into His plan I choose to accept this fact totally.