i have to admit that i am going through some weird phase. the funny thing about it is i have never felt closer to GOD than i do now. i have begun to desire an even deeper understanding of faith, of scripture and what GOD wants from us. i am trying to step out of my box. for some of you, you probably think i do already.
there is great comfort in staying in your comfort zone that's why it's called a comfort zone. we can be blind to what is going on around us, or we just don't really want to see. i don't know which one is worse. i have been questioning not how i spread the word, but by how i show what GOD has done in my life. our pastor said that a lot of individuals feel as though they have to give up their personalities when they follow HIM, but remember HE made you this way. one of the hardest things for me to deal with is individuals that are fake to the outside world, but they really just aren't nice people. the funny thing about that is you can't hide from GOD. he knows what in your heart, so what are we doing?
in my opinion one of the biggest sins of a christian is that we pick and choose what we take from the bible and how we are going to live our life. we want to stay with what is comfortable, not with what HE has told us we should be doing. accepting individuals for whom they are can be a pretty hard thing to do. think of all of the personality traits that we are having to deal with. the one thing i do know is i would never say never, because once you do that GOD seems to throw an obstacle to you that you never could have imagined would happen. the other thing i have figured out is that you can read scripture, but so many of us lose the meaning of what GOD is telling us, including me. we condemn those around us far easier than what HE does i think.
i think a lot of us going through a period where we really don't know what to expect anymore, or what GOD is going to throw at us. about the only two things i'm certain about right now is this rapture business that this preacher is preaching is false doctrine - period. we do not know the day CHRIST will return, so we are to live each day as if HE was going to return that day (matthew chapters 23 and 24). second, nations, or individuals that stand against israel will fall. people can argue this as much as they want, but it is all over the bible from genesis to revelations. i learned this way before glenn beck said it.
i want to know why you believe something. i want know if you found it in scripture and if that is your interpretation of it. i want to know if it's the church that has turned you from GOD, or if you think it's too hard to follow HIM. i want to know why you think GOD is not loving, or forgiving. i want to know why the world's view is so important, but not HIM. this is what i have been going through - complete confusion.
i'm not questioning the doctrine, but i'm questioning individuals that say they are christians and those that aren't. if you're not your willing to change yourself how in the world can you expect someone else to do it.
"for the grace given to me i say to everyone among you not think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgement, as GOD allotted to each a measure of faith." romans 13:3
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