The Lord Will Provide?

Is it just me or is anyone else seeing or hearing this and questioning it?

Over the years, I have, repeatedly, read or heard people say things like, God made her (him) this way, who are we to judge what God created? The Good Lord created this situation for us to ____________ (fill in the blank). It's in God's hands. The Lord will provide. God must have wanted it this way or other similar statements when people seem to be justifying their actions or things they don't understand.

Many times, I think, who are they trying to convince, me or themselves? After all, who said it was our Creator that allowed anything? Did everyone have a divine message? Did God tell them directly? Are they into communication? Could it be an assumption to placate their ego? To eradicate a guilty conscience? What if my feelings don't correspond with their's? Who's right then?

The reason that I feel this needed to be mentioned was due to an experience I had a long time ago. A family member, of a family member, was at a family function. She had stolen from another family member sometime before this event. They knew it was her, but didn't have evidence, so they couldn't do anything about it. At this function, she mentioned that the "Lord will provide." In that instance, guidance gave me a message which I relayed to her: "Which lord, because you know there are two?" When I spoke those words to her, she shrugged her shoulders and walked away, but I could see it had the impact they wanted her to have.

So you see, in that instance, with that message, it reminded me that there are two opposing forces. We can make excuses, we can state feelings, but the fact remains "God" isn't the only one "providing." Yes, I realize that good and bad are relative to what side of the fence one is standing on when something happens. Because of this, we have learned to recognize those opposing forces, but we've also learned to create excuses for them too.

Maturity comes when we stop making excuses and start making changes. We should understand that it's quite possibly our desires which are creating our realities due to the many influences around us, seen or unseen? For instance, our family, friends, community, or worldwide events that become part of our mental programming, as well as those invisible emotions or thoughts that can also permeate our consciousness to sway us.

The Lord will provide? Which one?