The atheists ask how the Christians have faith in a God they cannot see. Since He is unseen he cannot be real. In light of that fact, the alternative is to put your faith in nothing. You believe that beyond us there is nothing. After this life is nothing. There isn’t a purpose or meaning for being here. No matter what you do it means nothing. Beyond what you know to be real, there is nothing. I’d be angry too and demand a reason for having to feel that alone.
I’d be mad at God for not choosing to reveal himself to me too. I know I would be because I used to be. I used to be mad when I didn’t receive for all the good I thought I was doing. I was frustrated when life wasn’t going the way I wanted it to. I felt I was doing enough good to make up for the evil, so that I deserved some type of afterlife, but I couldn’t even decide on what that would be like.
Confused why I had to feel wrong for doing what I wanted. It’s my life right? Why can’t I just be left alone? If I am alone, who is to tell me I’m wrong? I can’t be judged by nothing. No one knows me better than me so I know what I need best. If that’s true then why can’t I fix the parts of me I don’t like? I hated that part of me that told me I was wrong.
If I was doing what deep down I knew was wrong, which part of me did I truly hate? I hated the part of me that was telling me I was wrong but not showing me why. How could it? I didn’t know that part of me so how would I know if it was even telling me something? “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.” Matthew 13:13 KJV.
A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. My story is simple but I pray it illustrates a lesson. I hope someone sees and hears that I know what you are going thru. I’m not better than you, in ways I was you. I had all the same reasons you do now. I pray you start to listen to the part of you that you don’t know. The joyful and loving part of you that you want to become all of you. That part of you is Jesus and he is waiting for you to let him in. He will fill any part of you that is missing. Fix the part that is broken. Heal the part that is hurting. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6 KJV. And He is not nothing, He is everything. Amen
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