The RSV maintains a more...
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The RSV maintains a more literal translation of the leper's words, "If you will, you can make me clean." The verb "will" is cognate in Greek with the noun, "will." Thus the leper's statement asks about the "will" of God. Did God "will" that the leper suffer originally? What does God will in the midst of suffering?
During the chaos and pain of WWII London, Leslie D. Weatherhead wrote The Will of God about how to view God's will. First, we need to consider God's intentional will. From the beginning of our lives God intends good for us. We don't have to mumble, "It's God's will," when someone dies, as though God's a killer.
Next is God's circumstantial will. Given the evil in the world, God's will here and now is seen in what God can do against and even with evil -- as in Jesus' death.
Last, God's ultimate will, guaranteed in Jesus' resurrection, promises that nothing finally can stop God's intentions for our redemption.
During the chaos and pain of WWII London, Leslie D. Weatherhead wrote The Will of God about how to view God's will. First, we need to consider God's intentional will. From the beginning of our lives God intends good for us. We don't have to mumble, "It's God's will," when someone dies, as though God's a killer.
Next is God's circumstantial will. Given the evil in the world, God's will here and now is seen in what God can do against and even with evil -- as in Jesus' death.
Last, God's ultimate will, guaranteed in Jesus' resurrection, promises that nothing finally can stop God's intentions for our redemption.
