Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2010

You are not even an atom, so SHUT UP!

You will NEVER find proof of God's existence while you openly reject and refuse Him. It just won't happen. Who thinks that by saying how much they hate and reject God that they will be able to find Him? What wall do you think you can build without laying down bricks and mortar? When you hate and deliberately reject God, He is not going to reveal anything to you. You are free to believe or disbelieve Him, but you have no right to make demands of Him.

One thing I always hear people, who deliberately reject the Lord, say is “prove to me that God exists”. There are so many reasons why this saying is so foolish. It's almost like they expect God to suddenly appear before them and do a back flip. First I want to ask these people, who exactly are you to think you can order a being, (infinitely more superior than yourself), to do parlor tricks. How is it you purposely and stubbornly reject God's voice but you expect Him to talk to you? Not even people you know would do this for you. For example, how many of you honestly think that if you run on the White House lawn and order the president to do a moonwalk, that he'll come out and dance the Billy Jean? No one right? Exactly! Most likely you'll just get the tar beaten out of you by security. Now how much less do you think God will do? The Great Creator of all the Universe and existence isn't your personal entertainer. Men aren't even worthy enough to reference God's very name, yet we expect Him to throw Frisbee with people who deny He even exists.

Needless to say it's comical for someone to demand God for proof when they don't even have the basic faith or knowledge of the Lord in the first place. This is like someone demanding to be taught Rocket Science, when they don't even know what 2 + 2 equals! And to demand that others prove to you that God exists is even dumber than asking the Lord Himself to prove it. Should we also teach blind people how to see? I've been a Christian for 9 years now and I am still learning more about the Lord. There are men who are prophets and hear the Lord's voice directly, yet even they are finding out something new from God daily. First have faith in the Lord and trust Him, then you will increase.

The other popular exclamation people say is “show me evidence that God exists”. For this we don't even need a spiritual shock but instead only have to look in how the Bible mentions historical upheavals to full accuracy. Peoples from the Hebrews, the Persians, the Babylonians, Greeks, and even the Romans are all talked about in direct time-line. Then there's also the archaeological discoveries of many of the sites and clashes of the ancient Torah (Old Testament). They've uncovered what appears to be the original Ark on Mount Ararat. There were some people who actually went inside and saw the animal storage quarters. Finally there's also the way that many records from the Torah coincide with records of other cultures, such as the story of the great flood. Both the ancient Sumerians and even Walum Olum tribe of the Americas both spoke of the same events told in the book of Genesis.

I know there are some people who don't hate the Lord or aggressively reject Him, but they only have trouble with how it came about. Some of us wonder where did God come from. This is a big concept at times because God is the only being that was NEVER created. He was always there in the beginning and the end. As for Jesus Christ the Son---Lord Jesus was with God since the beginning. The Son was always one with the Father. The thing about God is He exists differently from man. Man exists with body, a soul, and a spirit. God exists as the Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghost. God is the only self-sustaining being anywhere. He has perfect communion in Himself. The reason some people have trouble grasping such a concept as God is because they only see things through their eyes. Let's all realize that just because we only know what things look like from our perspective that doesn't mean other perspectives don't exists. Think of some aquatic life which sees things only through sonar and echolocation. They don't see things in color spectrum like we do. They have to voice feel their way around and in their environment, it actually works better in their environment than our form of seeing. Think also of water worms that if they were to be cut in two, they would separate and form two separate bodies. They can be cut where the tail would form a head and a head would grow it's tail back, but still one worm would become two. How do we as humans grasp what existence is like for other creatures on the earth? Because we can't determine how to feel what existence is like for creatures who are unlike us in every way, that doesn't mean that they do not exist.

Now with those things in mind, take the concept of God Almighty who is not a creature but a CREATOR. How can we have the audacity to judge whether or not God exists simply by our own standards? Just like we can't judge the existence of microscopic life and bacteria based on our standards of life, we can't do the same to God. As a matter of fact as bacterial life are to us humans, so to it are we humans compared to God. God is way beyond our thinking, life standards, existence, motives, strength, intelligence, wisdom, complexity, advancements, thought process, etc.

Think for a moment about that. How do microscopic and deep sea life know of human existence? They obviously don't have the brain capacity to understand what we are or how we live as human beings. And for the most part they have hardly ever seen us aside from the probes we send into the abyss. For the most part, all we look like to them are a bunch of bright lights and bubbling containers. Because they don't know anything about us doesn't mean we don't exist. The same goes for God. Even with all our technology, brilliant minds, and combined effort, we still cannot begin to grasp the extreme complexity of Him. We cannot being to grasp the shear power and infinite range God has. Like I said, we as the human race, are as bacteria compared to God---meager life forms with little power and understanding, trying to lasso something of immeasurable force. And whether you believe in the prophets of old or not, all the understanding we have of God Almighty actually came from God Himself! How's that for being put in our place?

To recollect with these thoughts, we must say it was very kind of God to actually come in the flesh (as Jesus Christ) and mingle with mankind. This also helps to serve as a testament to the complexity of God. Whereas God is willing to be as a man while at the same time having complete control over the universe and all created things. This is a testament of the scope of God. He is a concept greater than any wonder we know of in deep space and in the deep sea.

We also need to take a look at the concept of creation when we think of how God was always around. See God made all that we know which was created. The very thought of creation and making was His plan. He exists outside of creation. Even the stars had their start and ending from some point. But God however never began or ended. Why? because He made creation. He is not subject to being made or having an ending or a beginning. He set even Time itself in motion. Time is an infinite thing, yet even time was created and set by God. Everything has the Lord's signature.

Other opponents think they can reject God because He doesn't give them everything they want or that He is too “commanding”. Well for this, the explanation is that God is the only one who has the right to command and demand (due to the fact He created everything). And as for Him not giving you everything you want, He doesn't have to. God is not a genie. The God of Abraham is not like the gods you read about in mythology class. He isn't something that does the bidding of someone who just did a ritual ceremony. The God of Abraham (The Real God) is as a Father. What father you know takes orders from his children? Fathers do however protect their children. They give and nurture to their children. And the God of Abraham (The Real God) does exactly this. He isn't a genie, but He is a Father. And to those who become and act like His children, He does nurture. Not only does God the Father nurture His children, He also reveals more of Himself to them. He has the right to command everything and He has the right to chastise, but He also loves those who obey Him. God is dominate but He also loves. Sometime you hear stories of fathers who pick up their children and carry them to safety at their own peril. Other times there are more extreme cases when fathers got killed by diving in front of bullets to save their sons who got involved with gangs. God did exactly these things, except for the entire human race. There was someone called Jesus Christ (God the Son) 2000 years ago, who dove in front of a bullet so that all of us don't have to fall into hell. The only difference was that in this particular story, this Father got tortured to death on a cross instead of a quick death by a bullet.

But the fact of the matter is this. God still gives you some rights. And that is the right to choose. You can either choose to be one of His children or you can deny Him and put all trust in yourself. But if you chose the later, then you can't expect God to reveal Himself to you or to protect you.

The same goes for us Christians and people who do believe in God. How long can we chose to listen to ourselves and expect the Lord's face to go before us. How long can we chose to be live Godless and expect to be the Lord's children? We as Christians are His trees and a tree must bear fruit for it to be useful. Otherwise what good is a useless tree than to be cut down and burned or to be used as compost? As children of the Lord we must listen, obey, and follow. If you are a Christian and you hear the Lord talking to you through this, then it is time to take up your cross daily once again and follow Him. The time to be cold or lukewarm is over.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Thanks for letting me borrow this Lord...

Less/before any person should boast about how much money they make, what cars they drive, or how much fame and power they have, they should know that all of it is given from God. I don't care if you are someone who strongly believes in God or someone who doesn't believe in God at all, all that we have is borrowed from the Lord. He created everything and thus owns everything. Whether the very hairs on our head turn gray or not is on account of the Lord. Even if someone worships an idol or the devil himself, their power and life still comes from the Holy God in Heaven. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard for having a lot of money or beauty, because God can take that away like a twig on the beach. Especially in this ailing economy, that looks all the more possible.

This is why I get mad when people say nonsense like “It's because of Jesus that my ancestors were killed”. First of all, when was it ever recorded in history that Jesus suddenly came down from Heaven, took a rifle, and pointed it at your distant grandfather's face? But I will tell you that because of the Lord's mercy, you are now driving that fancy car and living in that big house of yours. And also because of Jesus Christ you have air in your lungs that you use to blaspheme His Holy name every day. That's what you got because of God the Father. Let me go a little further for a minute here too. Because of God's Son Jesus Christ, you also got a chance to turn away from blaspheming His name like an idiot, becoming forgiven, and becoming saved from falling into Hell. That's what we got from Jesus Christ and it took Him His whole life of pain and torture to give us that gift! So how do you now say that Jesus killed your ancestors? It was actually guys like you and me who killed Jesus! That's something we are all guilty of!

Even those men who rule the nations get their authority from God. It's ridiculous to see how many worldly rulers think they have the right to abuse their subjects as if they own them as property. We look through history at communist rulers who use to persecute, execute people, send them to gulags, separate them from their families, bar people from worshiping God, and then order people to worship themselves. Even today we have world leaders who believe they can sign an innocent baby's death warrant and call it a “woman's right to choice”. Did these men suddenly forget that it was God's hand who laid the very foundation of this earth and His right hand which spans across the entire Universe. Everything is GOD's! All human life and the very nations of the world are God's. The only reason these world leaders have power is because they have been bestowed this authority from God Himself. God can give this authority and take this authority away as well. And that goes for everyone.

Ancient Persia was run by a king called Nebuchadnezzar. He had all the power in the world and many armies at his command. Yet all of this was given to Him from the God of Abraham. When he was given the choice to glorify God with the power he was bestowed, he instead chose to glorify himself. He even erected a large idol of himself so others could marvel on. But that statue did nothing to help him because when God saw how Nebuchadnezzar chose to pay tribute to himself instead of the Lord, Nebuchadnezzar became as a beast of the field. Because of the way Nebuchadnezzar chose to worship himself and not give God His due credit, the former king ran our broke poor. For years Nebuchadnezzar's food was the grass of the field. His hair looked like the worst atomic G-Fro you ever saw. Even his nails, which weren't cut in years, looked like something an eagle uses to catch fish with! Indeed Nebuchadnezzar ended up looking more like a grazing cattle than a king. He chose to pay tribute to himself and thus rely on himself and this is what happened.

Now knowing all this, who are we to look down on anyone? Who are we, because we are richer, healthier, stronger, or smarter, to look down on anyone who is not? We got our “lucky” break because the Lord gave it to us. So how do we feel that we are suddenly more special than those who the Lord has chosen to not have as much? Everyone observe this example for a moment: God has given a poor prophet a few dollars a week, but with the power, this poor man has chosen to glorify God with it. And even though the poor man has only meager rations, he still thanked God for what he had; saying “it is because of Jesus Christ's love that I get these gifts” At the same time God has also given another man excelled riches. But with those riches, this powerful man instead chose to exalt himself over God. He doesn't even care if God exists or not anymore. So which one of these men do you think is really the stronger guy and the better man? I would say the poor man who chose to glorify God with what he had. That man poor man is the better and stronger man. Yet this is only an example. I'm not saying that this applies just to people who God has given rule over nations. Many of us have been given power of some sort, whether it is the ability to lift 500 lbs to having the strength of lifting only 1 lbs. Either way, everything we have comes from God.

Our families and loved ones also come from the Lord. I remember hearing some guy who said he doesn't call God a creator because he himself created his daughter. Needless to say I though the guy was hilarious. Who is that blind and/or arrogant enough to think they can create anything? That man's daughter could not only have died during birth but he and his wife could have been baron from the start. As a matter of fact, the first man ever on earth only got up and walked because the Lord breathed the breath of life into him. God knows every child from before they were formed in the womb. And God created all the generations that came before them. So who are we to boast of creating any life, or anything thing at all? God made the fist that made the sword. God made the animal that became your dinner last night. God made the stone that the artist chipped into a statue of Zeus and Poseidon. God made the metal that became the coin with Caesar's image printed on it. God made the wood that was processed into book pages, that satanists and militant atheists use to print blasphemies on. God gave you the very next breathe in your nostrils that you used to say a curse word against the Lord with. The very penny in my pocket is a gift from God.

Even the very time we see tick by is borrowed by God. Yes indeed we are living on borrowed time. We do not know when our time of death will be. Everyone knows that most deaths are sudden and unexpected. No one tells you that you have 3 days to live before you get in a car crash or are struck with a sudden heart attack. There was a popular news story a while back of a woman who survived one of these plane crashes we've been having, only to have died in a car accident later on. You see, we are all living on borrowed time. So there's no better a time to live for the Lord than right this minute. Let's not use it foolishly on our own self-bloating and worldly riches.

The same goes for us Christians. How will we live with the time and power the good Lord has allowed us in this world? Will we seek pleasures of the world and fornicate with it? Or will we use the time God granted us to serve Him instead? How we spend today, tomorrow or next week is very important. We must use the time and power we have for the Lord. No matter what power was given to us or taken from us, everyone needs the Lord or else see judgment.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

These the words of Jesus Christ before His capture

Upon waking up this day I talked to the Lord regarding if my life had Jesus Christ as it's focal point. I reached for my Bible and opened it up. Immediately these verses stared me in the face in clear red lettering. Everyone reading these verses spoken by the Lord should let them sink in their heads and hearts. It is with great humility that I even page these the words of Jesus Christ before His capture in the garden.


Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

John 17: 1-26



Read them over and over. Read them 1000 times if you must. Give ear and if the Lord is explaining things to you in this scripture. Know that everything you do should be about Jesus Christ. As judgment comes near and His day arrives closer, know that everything is about Jesus Christ. It is not about your car, your TV, your businesses, your sports, or your self glory. It is Jesus Christ who God raised on high, and it is Him which everything is focused upon.