12 September 2019

BIBLE JOURNAL AND FAITH

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The LORD sent you, and will tell you what to say.

Today I’ve been reading, studying and pondering on John 12. John 12:40 led me to Isaiah 6:10.
I am a Christain. I do believe in Jesus. Sometimes I don’t feel like a person that believes, I don’t feel like there is Jesus but that’s just a feeling. Yet I have the faith that Jesus is true and that faith you see stays deep and it fills me with guilt when I don’t believe. Complicated sentence right?

Many people do not believe in God or Jesus. They just live their lives and I am very certain this is because of a deep fear they don’t admit to themselves. The fear of not being able to follow up with the Christian principles and works. The fear of lying to yourself for so long. The fear of being deceived. The fear of not living your life to the fullest. The fear of being restricted to a particular lifestyle. The fear of being conscious about your actions. The fear of how difficult it is. But also the weakness of man, the truth that man is weak and not strong enough to be good. The difficulty in doing what’s right.

I myself have questioned the existence of God longer than most unbelievers do. I have shouted to the skies and ask him to show himself to me, even though it’s with a sign. Because I wanted my own eyes to see his glory before I believe. I wanted to see for myself and not by what other people said to me. Why? Because of the fear of being deceived.

God is more spirit and nothing close to human except for the image.

First, If you want to find evidence of God’s existence and Jesus’ sacrifice you must first believe he exists… Just a simple believing first. That’s the deal he keeps. You must first believe before he can show himself to you. Just like any other deal we humans do. You do your part, he does his part and you must do it in honesty.
I am slowly finding reasons to believe in God, which will lead to believing in Jesus. You must first believe the earth did not just appear, believe in the sovereignty of a mighty God before you can start focusing on who Jesus is.

Next, you see Christians believe God gave Jesus so he can save the world. Here is how he led me towards understanding:
Before I say it, PLEASE PICK A BIBLE AND READ ISAIAH 60 and John 12.
NOW, we should start seeing Jesus as more of a principle than constantly demanding to see him. Jesus is rejected by thousands of people because he says the truth. And we all know how hard saying the truth is… There’s the fear of being mocked or beaten or hated or rejected and this fact itself proves the reality Jesus is.
The truth is something hard to be told in this world and Jesus himself being the TRUTH makes it excruciatingly hard to accept him or even talk about him.

Reading the Bible helps you know more of his principles. So to be able to find evidence of his existence you must read his principles and see if it matches what you already see happening now. In this evidence based research you must be willing to talk to him, like just ask him questions even though you hear no answers; this is basically that hard thing Christians call prayer.
We claim to be able to hear our own voices in our head. Sometimes some say things we normally wouldn’t say, sometimes they sound brutal and sometimes sound nice and good. Have we asked ourselves why some are good and some are evil. Have we asked ourselves why sometimes we can’t control the voices. That only means it’s controlled by something we can’t see and understand. Good or bad. And what we can’t see is called a spirit and God is a spirit… Spirit of good and most things the world is against.

Notice how a child is at birth, very inquisitive and gentle and ready to help. That’s the natural state before the tug of war between accepting what’s good and what’s evil.

Jesus is a principle that tells us to say the truth because everyone deserves the truth, to love and to continue spreading these principles with others, so they themselves will do good things and the earth is all rainbows. Jesus now is rejected by humans and seen as a fairytale.
Is this not what is happening now?

God said he sent his son Jesus, the word, the truth, the light in a dark world where everyone is ready to kill…. Why? Because God knew if people followed Jesus, this principle of saying the truth, loving people and giving to people about to die; He knew if the earth does this there will be less war, less starvation and wicked government, less greed because the truth will be told, less killing to acquire properties because everyone is ready to give. The world will be saved from all these evil and killing and selfishness and hurt, from this suicide bombing and harassment and discrimination and strive to please other people. Because like God commands “Don’t anger someone to sin”. If we obeyed God we wouldn’t do things to make someone angry and filled with hate.
God’s gospel from my understanding is truth, love, light, doing hard things and being rejected by majority of the world… Because the truth is hard for the world. The world chooses to just reject him and tell themselves there is no God. Meanwhile this very principle plays in our society.

Jesus is not just a religion, He is a way of life that saves man. The economy will be easier and killing will not be easy because love will be around.

Humans are lazy. We really don’t like hard work so we choose not to do hard things. We see the principal of Jesus taught in moral classes and company regulations but we are afraid to commit and choose to ignore Him.

If you want to learn more, pick the bible and watch God show you the original principles of the earth
Isaiah 6:9-10 says the whole conflict:

Isaiah 6:9 NLT
 And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people, ‘Listen carefully, but do not understand. Watch closely, but learn nothing.’
 Isaiah 6:10 NLT
 Harden the hearts of these people. Plug their ears and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts and turn to me for healing.”
 https://bible.com/bible/116/isa.6.9.NLT

P. S To be honest most Christians make Christianity hard to accept because you don’t resonate to their picture of him. Some don’t even practice what they teach. God is spirit, God is love, Jesus is the truth that saves the earth from doing evil. All God wants is for you to believe in Jesus, that is, doing good will save the earth and will continue to save the earth.
“Where is the love? where is Jesus? “

I admit this is not all to Christianity, I admit Christian have their hard practices and rituals… But all God really wants is that you believe in Jesus (his word) and Jesus will save you and the world. And the greatest Christian practice is just to spread this word, that is Jesus despite the rejection. That you should live a lifestyle that displays Jesus, the truth.

Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to God that means the truth, love and doing good is the only way to God.

I wish I can say it all here. The earth is waiting for Jesus to appear before they believe him but we here on earth are suppose to adopt that spirit of truth and just live by it. The truth is hard.
Jesus dying on the cross just symbolises the fact that God have plans we can’t understand because we are are human. His death serves a purpose of forgiveness even when we fail in doing what’s right and just. So we can always ask for forgiveness and start again.

Jesus is everywhere because everyone demands to be told to truth.

Give God a chance, set aside other people’s ideas and go seek him yourself by believing and reading his word. He will guide you through even when you don’t see him.

You will grow in your faith. .

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I was able to understand and explain from this perspective because I’ve been praying even when I hear no answers out loud and I’ve been reading the Bible even when I don’t understand.

God speaks through out thinking and advice from people that matches to his word and God teaches humans to be patient.

Give him a chance, open your heart and do hard things…