Question: when you read the Bible, do you ever stop and
think to yourself why this happened or what was the purpose of that happening
or just generalizing what and why things happened the way they did? Did you ever say to yourself; if I were God, I would have done this or that differently and
not done some of the things you have read at all? I think many, if not everyone, that has heard
about God may have questioned some of the things they have read in the Word of
God.
Do you know why I think this is true? It is because I believe that, this is what
happened to many of the atheists and non-believers that exist today and all
down through the ages. Take Lucifer for
instance, here we have a beautiful angel without a sin nature that stood in the
presence of God Almighty and one day he decides he is better than God and is going
to build his throne higher and greater than God’s throne, not being content to
serve God but wanting God to bow down and serve and worship him; and keep this
in mind, God created him. Just like
Lucifer, many today are not content to serve and honor God and let Him rule and
reign, they want to rule and reign themselves.
This is what happens when people start leaning on their own
understanding. Thinking about what they just read and thinking they know more
than God, they went on a tirade against God and started their own ministry, some
cursing God until they died. There are
many of these people still around today, they will not bow their knee to God
but continually stand at odds against Him. This is how many of the cults got started and
are still around today. God’s Word tells
us not to lean on our own understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge Him
and He will direct our paths or make our paths straight.
I see the problem as being our understanding of what is
happening around us today and thinking we can handle things better than God. But we are so deceived in so many ways. We tend to believe whatever we hear, depending
on who says it even when we don’t know if it is true or not. So many times we get people’s opinions and we
believe them as the truth. The Word of
God says to check out a matter and see if it is true.
For me it comes down to this, where do we find the truth? In the Word of God of course. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the
life, no man can come me unless the Father draw him. There are what I call watered down sermons and
doctrines of demons today and people sit under them all the time, blinded to
the truth and drinking in the lies like they were pure water.
The Word of God talks about people who won’t put up with
sound doctrine in the end times, but they will only listen to what their itching
ears want to hear which is sure the truth in our day. It seems like whatever makes people feel good
is only what they want to hear, but Christianity is not just a feel-good theology,
plus do not forget sometimes the truth hurts, but it doesn’t make it less true.
Some people don’t believe that the Holy
Spirit convicts believers today. If you
only listen to lies that make you feel good and not sound doctrine and you
believe what you hear, how would you feel convicted?
There are times when the Lord chastises or disciplines those
He loves, and if you are never chastised, or disciplined, then you are an
illegitimate child. No chastisement, or discipline,
seems good at the time but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who have been trained by it. You
can find this in Hebrews 12:11.
In Hebrews 5:8 it talks about Jesus learning obedience through
suffering, please read it for yourself, “though He was a Son, yet
He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.”
Paul said this, “if anyone lives a godly life, he will be
persecuted,” he didn’t say he might be persecuted. It sounds to me that if you live a Christian life,
you will experience pain of some sort; but if you weren’t taught this and it
happens, you might say that you didn’t sign up for this and decide to throw in
the towel especially if all you listen to is feel good teaching and preaching,
so be careful who you listen to and what you believe.
Enough said I hope this was a help and a blessing to you!! May the good Lord bless you and yours and have
a very Merry Christmas and remember Jesus’ birth is the reason we celebrate
Christmas each year!!
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