when i was first diagnosed with ms i was too angry with GOD to turn to him. i questioned everything that was wrong with the world and why he would allow such horrors to happen. as i have grown in my walk i still question HIM, but i try to figure out what he is trying to tell me. some of the horrors are just man's inability to do what is right. HE gives us choices and either we walk in HIS way, or we choose to walk in evil.
"in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight" proverbs 3:6
with power comes great responsibility, but man is man and sometimes that power becomes too great. if a man is humble in his life i trust him more than a man that is full of arrogance. that's why it is so hard for me to vote. i have voted, but i had to choose the lesser of two evils in my opinion. our politicians are so corrupt with greed and arrogance that i can't really find one that has humility. i was probably wrong to just pick one side, but i am a citizen of this country and i don't want to lose my freedom.
most individuals think about evil in larger scales, not the small. we think about the man that tried to blow up a plane and kill hundreds, but do we think about the man that wants to pull you away from your belief in CHRIST? we think about the oppression of governments on it's citizens, while they live in indulgence and freedom. we think about why we aren't being blessed when we have given so much of ourselves to world, but that thought is out of selfishness.
do we think about a church that isn't preaching the true word of GOD? does it strive to set an example of what it means to follow CHRIST and CHRIST alone? i laugh out loud when i hear the "prosperity gospel" preached. praying to GOD that you will become rich is not the true word of GOD. GOD'S definition of riches is not through money, but living through HIS word.
"for where you find envy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every evil practice." james 3:16"
"and i saw that all labor and achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. this too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind." ecclesiastes 4:4
for most of us our true goal for life is get through it without too many bumps in the road. when face trials we often cry out loud with anger towards GOD about why HE is doing this to us. maybe we have turned so far to darkness that we can't find the light anymore. it takes great strength to follow HIM in this world right now, but we must FOLLOW HIM. HE died so that we may live in HIS eternal glory not the world.
"i know what it means to be in need, and i know what it is to have plenty. i have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry. whether living in plenty or in want. i can do everything through HIM who gives me strength." philippians 4:12-13
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