Warning: The following entry may upset you, it may offend as well…but you know I am not perfect and I can’t please everyone. I am tired of always bowing to everyone else s opinions just because I am the “nice Christian” does not mean I have to agree, or sit quietly and say nothing. I am to be a cultivator of peace but most of the anti-God people I know out there do not have peace on their tongues or in their hearts when they are wielding them at me. I can’t sit by and say nothing, I have to be ready with a response for why I believe what I believe. I am passionate about Christ, I know the power of this transformed life and I don’t want anyone else to miss it. I have written the following not because I want to hurt or offend but because I feel like many people need to hear what I believe is becoming a growing epidemic of hard hearts and shut ears. People are so biased against God that when the subject is broached they have already written me off! As if the very God of creation did anything to offend them? He meticulously wove them in their mothers wombs, and died on the cross just so He could know them in a more intimate way. The desire is not one sided either, so many people talk about feeling empty, they try and fill their hearts, minds, and souls but nothing seems to satisfy. I know I have the answer…Jesus. He will perfectly fit that whole..you want to know why? Because it was a God shaped void…I am not saying that if you accept the gift of salvation and start developing a relationship with God that everything will be better…but at least you wont be alone…and eventually it will get better. God loves you too much to leave you in the mess, and He created you and purposed you for so much more…. that’s why you have so many gifts and talents. I pray that you will read this and rather than be offended your heart will be pricked and you will decide to get to know the God of your salvation…Immanuel: God with us, that’s Jesus.
You ask for proof!
Your own demise is written in your eyes,
void, as they are of truth.
Why can’t you see that if you would just look
with eyes that wanted to see
then proof…
well you would find it.
Instead you demand proof
but refuse to see
because you have already decided.
You have a disposition that is set against,
a bias if you will,
like a child,
who seeing but not knowing,
refuses to even try it!
Your staggering intellect has made you dumb.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
but to us who are being saved
it is the very power of God.
You want proof then here is some.
Diggers dig
and find in the ground
ancient kingdoms
whose histories are found within the scripture.
If historians
and scientists
recognize the Bible as a reliable source of history
don’t you think that makes it a little bit more trustworthy?
A standard test
to determine the authenticity and trustworthiness of books
found from earlier periods of time
is to test them against other copies of the same text,
and also to see how many copies of the same text are available.
For example:
If I had a copy of Homers Iliad
I could compare it to only a few of its other copies to prove that it was indeed a copy of that famous writing.
In comparison
we have found over five thousand early copies of the New Testament.
When compared to each other
they are amazingly accurate.
This is important to understand,
the Bible as being trustworthy.
These manuscripts of the New Testament date back to
before the close of the first century…
this means that there were still lots of people around who had witnessed what was written in the text.
Had there been any inaccuracy to the accounts there would have been plenty of people around to contest the writing.
Plainly put, the authors of those books knew that if what they wrote was found to be inaccurate
there would have been plenty of people to point it out.
(If you are at all interested in learning more about this please follow the link http://carm.org/manuscript-evidence )
This all said… I realize that some people just wont open their eyes…
there hearts have grown dull
and they can not be convinced that maybe God exists
and He is who He says He is.
For you,
my staunchest critic
and being thus, always having an argument against everything I write or say…
what can you say to the transformed life?
I was a drunk,
literally beer for breakfast kind of girl.
I needed alcohol to function!
When I gave my heart to God he delivered me from alcoholism.
It happened almost overnight.
I did not suffer withdrawal.
I was steeped in witchcraft,
having been caught up in what can sometimes be
very beautiful aspects of the craft,
I wanted to die…
and whenever I cast
it always seemed to go badly.
When I gave my life to God my eyes were opened.
I saw that while “white witches” think they are “good”
the spirits they commune with are the epitome of evil.
They work with Satan
and he can appear as something so beautiful,
his native language,
lies…
and so that is why he and his can so easily convince a person that what they are doing is right….
he is out to kill, steal, and destroy
by any means necessary.
It’s war!
When I gave my life to God,
he dispelled the spells
and set this captive free!
The depression lifted
and for the first time in a long time I felt I was loved
and had a purpose!
Can’t you see yet?
I could have no more saved myself from alcoholism, and witchcraft, then a baby newly born could get up and run.
Ridiculous!
I could not have,
by my own power
forgiven the man who abused me horribly when I was just a child
and tried to kill my mother.
But the power of Christ in me, filled my heart with love for the man who was to be my father…
I honor him to this day as such.
My mother, having come through addictions
heroin, meth, marijuana, prescription pills, and abusive men…
has lost all her teeth,
but found the King!
Though separated from my “Dad”
she prays daily for restoration…
foolishness indeed to those who do not know the power of
“God the great Physician”
He longs to heal and restore those who are broken or lost.
I speak of incredible things,
things you cannot fathom because you are so consumed with the meager lies you have been fed.
I have known so many like you.
To smart for your own good.
Even now you are preparing your rebuttal,
you open your mouth…
your sound bytes echo,
your pride swells stroking the inner man.
Convinced as you are that there is no grand maker,
no master plan.
My heart weeps for you
You wont give God anywhere to come in
but without Him you are dangerously empty,
Full of the other things you have pushed in
trying to fill the God shaped void
Never the less I try to make you stop, look and listen!
Creation renders man without excuse
and for lovers of truth, Amen!
I will never give up on you!
Clearly God has put you in my life for a reason.
You have such a hunger for truth.
Maybe in time God will reveal Himself to you
and you will use that amazing mind of yours to reach the lost for God.
That would be so AWESOME!!!
The very idea of you saved,
fills me with such joy…
and I need some joy after this conversation.
I can have hope that one day you will see.
I must be faithful to never quite trying…
not to convert you,
I don’t want to push,
but to gently speak truth to you.
To show you with my faithful love and friendship that I am different than your other friends.
Because of Christ in me,
I can radiate a peace.
Because of Christ in me
I have joy.
Because of Christ in me
I want to live,
and if nothing else can convince you…this one truth should make a difference.
God has given me life!
Goodbye my dear friend for now,
yes I will see you soon.
Thanks for always putting up with me…
I know I can be trying sometimes
but you must know how genuinely I care.
Okay,
next time we meet lets just play chess,
I won’t bring Him up if you don’t!
Bye,
I love you.
(Preach the gospel always, if necessary use words.)
Quia Gloria Eius 