After Friday's horrific murders our thirst for a saviour should be even greater. We thirst for peace and understanding of why such evil exists. We know that this is not what God had intended for his children. We will search to blame someone for this young man's decision. Most of us will turn further into the darkness, because a God of love would never allow this to happen to his people. God promises that every knee will bow to him with judgment this includes the most cherished of his people. Every disciple of the bible bowed to him in judgement. Every good person will bow. We can't escape that reality. We can't escape judgment; good and bad.
When I was diagnosed with MS someone told me the devil gave me this disease. A Christian told me this. That is an ignorant comment, because they believe that God is only a God of love. The intention wasn't to be hurtful, but they wanted me to have comfort that God would never cause such pain in one of is children. That is false doctrine and they have been taught that. God didn't punish me he just forced me to find him, and it is still a very harsh journey. I have been on treatment for almost 2 weeks now. My husband and I had forgotten the brutality of it. I had forgotten to praise him everyday, all day for not having an attack. I took this beautiful gift for granted.
God allows disease, wars, and innocence to be destroyed so that we will come to him. Abortion is no less horrific than what happened on Friday, but we still allow murder everyday of innocent children; legally. Abortion is America's holocaust, and people wonder why we are in trouble. He allows Satan to live, but we forget that. Have you noticed that we are not allowed as Christians to be angry about anything. We are not allowed to call evil, evil. We are not allowed to say what it really is (evil), because then we aren't being loving and tolerant. Wrong is wrong no matter how we twist it. Sin is still sin in God's eyes. We should be angry that we have turned our backs on him, and allowed others to do it. He commands us as followers to share his word. We should be angry that a nation that once loved God so much in the beginning is now being forced to remove him, but we did allow it. We are hypocrites every time we allow it.
What this young man did on Friday was cowardly. Those around them that knew he was ill were cowards. Our fear or laziness of not helping those we love is cowardly. We turn our backs on family, friends, or neighbors out of pure selfishness because we don't want to be bothered to fight for them. We become the religious hypocrite that he hates because in reality we fear that we may have caused some of their pain. We can't face the fact that they are hurting and we don't have the strength or endurance to help them, but we say we love them. We don't believe a God of love would let someone suffer so we ignore it and throw them away. We blame others in our righteousness and pride for our failings. God detests this about his children, and no wonder he is losing his patience.
We just finished the book of Jonah. Jonah was an angry man because was God telling him to do something he didn't want to do. Jonah knew God could save Nineveh without him, but God wanted him to tell them they only had 40 days to repent, or be destroyed. Jonah told them, they repented and God gave them mercy. Jonah was still angry with God for making him do it. God is giving us warnings to repent, and we are sitting here waiting for him to just solve it without doing anything. We have to stop ignoring evil, and take a stand for HIM. We have to stop ignoring the harsh reality of what our nation has become. We will fall unless we get down on our knees and beg. It is a promise, and God always keeps his promises.
I thank God everyday for my parents that never hid the harsh truths of the world from their children. They never told us we would never suffer, or have hardships.They never feared telling us what we did wrong, and there would be consequences for those actions. They were never so prideful that they could not admit what they did that hurt us. They weren't cowards in confronting their children or those around them that created division. They never feared it, and they still don't. I got a big tongue lashing from my dad last week about allowing stupidity in my life and then I get sick. My dad reminded me to stop this nonsense, and face your reality. Then he said good luck with that you're an adult now get on with it.
I will be honest with you and tell that if you accept him into your life you will have to change. He commands you to become more like his son. His son paid for your life and you owe him. He does not owe you. I wonder if he is tired of the religious game we play with him. The last 2 weeks have been a conversation about my game with him. He is tired of playing it with me. I don't have a problem with him telling me the truth. He is my father and he has expectations of me as his child. He basically said you are damaging your relationship with me and it is time to stop. If you cannot accept his truth as a christian you have problem in your relationship with him and you are failing him.
How is your relationship with him today? That should be the question.
10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5
8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 2 Corinthians 4: 8-10
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