What I've learned this week

Don't worry, I will be getting back to Mere Christianity next time, I promise.  But tonight I can't sleep until I write down the things that won't turn off in my brain.  After writing my last two posts, sharing with you my doubts and fears, I feel like I HAVE to share what I've learned.  It wouldn't be right to leave this one hanging.  So, here goes:

God is VERY real.  He is more real than ANYTHING.  How have I come to this conclusion?  Well, that is pretty much impossible to put into words, but I suppose I should try.  I guess the process could be described by Jeremiah 29:13 "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."  In my own words, I think God was getting fed up with me doubting Him, and showed me how absurd those thoughts are.  He kind of said, "Seriously?  How can you even say you aren't sure about me?"  I don't think it is wrong to have doubts and that you should just blindly accept everything the Bible teaches or everything other people tell you.  If I had just kept on believing in that way, without questioning, then I wouldn't be in this state of mind.  (By the way, anything I write will absolutely fall short of what is really going on in my heart and my head, but I have to try.)  I'm not even just a little bit more sure, I KNOW God is real, and that He is EXACTLY who He says He is.  Those old doubts have just been shattered.  The only explanation I can give you is that God Himself took a hammer and crushed them.  I don't understand everything, I don't have all the answers, but I know God is real.  I wish I could explain it another way, but I just don't have the words.  If you seek Him with all your heart, you will find Him, too.  Let me leave you with just one more verse for those who would say, "If God is real, He would make Himself easy to find."

Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

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