REALLY, CHRISTIANS, REALLY???

Christians are simple creatures. They really seem not to have much or to live by much but only just the bare minimum, and some more. It’s incredulous how such people can claim to be heirs of the world, under leadership of the “Maker of the universe” or even purport to be content with so little! What a lie, or so it would seem.

A true Christian does not care much about wealth or power or fame and all that, he stands aloof, oblivious of these true goals. Instead he is much more concerned with serving a non-visible being that he cannot perceive by physical eyes, rather by faith!

Yet the most annoying thing is that they think they have it better than everyone else in their vain believes and so they spend every waking moment trying to convince everyone else to adopt their practices.

This is an all too familiar argument among by atheists and skeptics, people who do not believe that there is a god, scientologists who claim that the universe was not created; it evolved from nothingness; basically opponents of Christ and the Christian faith.

That’s not a way to start a note quite frankly, but let me for now. It seems illogical to speak out in such a way so let me explain where I am coming from.

I am a Christian, a believer and in fact a devout Christian in my service of the Lord God. I encountered a bunch of friends who were atheists and skeptics of the existence of a superior being thought to have brought the universe into existence. So like many others I set out to try and convince these people of the truth about my God. Of course I could not agree with the all too familiar argument that “it’s better to live your life as though God exists only to find out that he does not rather than to live our lives as though he doesn’t only to find out that he exists.”

So I tried convincing of His existence and tried even quoting scientific evidence of creation and all that, but I ended up hitting a blank wall. So I was sitting and wondering what the hell happened, how even after I had prayed before I started talking and convincing them I still faced defeat. So I started questioning God what happened, how it ended up that I would face a sore defeat at best.

So God started dealing with me at a personal level. He asked me a series of questions; you can say I was on a hot seat.

First question:

Even after all that arguing I still couldn’t convince the skeptics that God actually existed, but they too never actually managed to shake my Faith in My Lord’s existence, why?

I began to beat around the bush but I couldn’t find a better solution or an answer, so I said to Him, “how can I doubt your existence when I’m actually speaking to you?”

That was sufficient.

Simeon Peter’s argument in Acts 4:20 that we cannot but speak of what we’ve seen and heard were on point. I have seen God’s manifest in my life and I should never be ashamed of saying of how we engage in conversations.

On a light note someone said that God should sometimes be called Jehovah ‘something’ because as people start recognizing that God has been speaking to them all along they start saying “something told me ….” They are afraid to proclaim the truth about their conversational relationship with God.

Second question:

God asked me this, if I believe in Him, not because of what I’ve read in the Bible but because I have experienced being with Him, what makes me think that the skeptics haven’t had such experiences?

A tough question, I admit and it got me thinking that I must be so self-centered to believe that the Creator of all beings manifests more to me than to other beings, even to animals. He says that He loves everyone equally and no partiality.

Now I got to understand His insistence on FAITH! See if you do not believe then you will always find an excuse… no no, let me rectify, if you have allowed yourself to be deceived that He doesn’t exist then the deceiver will always find a way of convincing you that He is not there, no matter what He does and no matter how much He manifests Himself in your life. It adds up since people who claim to commune with God are referred to as liars at best and schizophrenic at the worst.

Third question:

What do you think I am doing about reaching to these people?

I must admit I really thought about it, and finally having no answer I chose to hear about it. So He sent me on a quest to research on anyone who ever prayed to Him that “God, if you really exist…” and how they were answered.

After a not-so-intensive-research, I came with an answer, He does NOTHING! (You can re-read that if you didn’t get that the first time)

Yep, He does not do a single thing, why? I found the answer to that in Romans 1:20 that the evidence of His existence is fully manifest even of His invincible qualities such as the Godhead so that they are without excuse!! (I’ve paraphrased) but generally you get the point. It’s pretty clear that God exists even more He loves us so we cannot claim not to know, the same chapter says that they’ve exchanged the truth about God for a lie.

I don’t want to point a finger but here is the deal,

God exists,

He cares for you,

He wants to speak to you,

He LOVES us so much,

Just take time and listen to Him, open up your heart to this simple truth,

And you’ll come to experience a love like no other

A life so fulfilling

And a promise so secure,

Trust me, I know, I’ve lived through it!!!

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

Now I understand that there are people out there who are quite concerned about what I’ve said, tell you what, take a breath, think it through… no one is judging.

I am not going to appeal to logistics at all, I wish you to perceive beyond that point. If you are open up to it, out of the sincerity of your heart (not how we dare God move a particular object or strike us with lightning) let Him reveal Himself at a personal relationship, pray to Him, ask Him to show Himself to you. If you are honestly confused and are in fact really wondering about this and not just another proud guy who just won’t admit of His existence, He will come to you and dine with you and you with Him Revelation 3:20: Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. (NKJV)

If you are sincere about your desire to know that God exists then ask Him, He who looks at our hearts will show Himself to anyone who really and sincerely want to know Him.