What God cannot do

In The Joy Bringer, Walter C. Lanyon writes:

God cannot be sick, and ‘What God cannot do man need not attempt.’ Is there anything clearer than this -that in being sick, poor, or unhappy we are apparently doing something which the Creator of the heavens and earth cannot do.

Lanyon, among others, helps me see the never-ending theme of the Bible, best described by Jesus as “judge not by appearances” (John 7:24).

It begins in the beginning. From Genesis, Chapter 3:

The LORD God told them, ‘’You shall not eat of the fruit of…