The following post is from this past July 9th:
I don't blame you. I would feel the same way. In fact I did feel the same way for many years. God was....well he was there....probably....I wasn't going to take a chance anyway on saying that I didn't believe in him. I went to church on most Sundays and if some serious problem came up in my life I went to him...for a little while. What alternative was there? I mean he gave us a book but I couldn't make hide nor hair of it. There was a lot of promises with the sacraments and I kinda took advantage of that occasionally, but really, there was nothing substantive, nothing that could grab my intellect and certainly nothing to make me cry out with joyful shouts of... 'life. life, eternal life!'
So to the readers of this post who look at God with what they believe to be a full allegiance but an allegiance that, strong as it may appear, lacks a certain something....an overwhelming awe of a Holy God who could pardon even the chief of sinners...an overcoming security based only upon His faithfulness in spite of our weaknesses....and a sure hope that drives one to know more and more of this majestic God and His power and love and righteousness and mercy; to you I can only say there is more, more than your heart can hold, and it is necessary, and He never turns anyone away who desires to know Him!
Use your analytical skills. Do you think that the martyrdom, sacrifice and persecution of so many, all to put one more jot and one more tittle to paper, to protect the Word of God, and-at risk of burning at the stake-to disseminate it....does that not give you even a hint that there is more here than what we have come to believe? Does not centuries of missionary dedication, of serving in huts and jungles and rice fields, all the while rejoicing in that that book would be read anew in a new language...does all of this not make you wonder what the fuss was all about? Does it not stir in you even the slightest interest in picking up a Bible...you probably have one within a few feet of where you are reading this...and asking of God that if this is truly His infallible written Word, then would He display its power that has heretofore not been seen, have mercy on one who has ignored it for so long, and reveal that person who has been known only as Jesus, but whom others have referred to as a Kings of kings and Lord of lords, and Alpha and Omega, and Light of the World, and Word of Life, and Lord of All, and Bread of Life, and Rock, and Resurrection and Life, and Way the Truth and the Life, and the Author of Life?
I don't blame you. I would feel the same way. In fact I did feel the same way for many years. God was....well he was there....probably....I wasn't going to take a chance anyway on saying that I didn't believe in him. I went to church on most Sundays and if some serious problem came up in my life I went to him...for a little while. What alternative was there? I mean he gave us a book but I couldn't make hide nor hair of it. There was a lot of promises with the sacraments and I kinda took advantage of that occasionally, but really, there was nothing substantive, nothing that could grab my intellect and certainly nothing to make me cry out with joyful shouts of... 'life. life, eternal life!'
So to the readers of this post who look at God with what they believe to be a full allegiance but an allegiance that, strong as it may appear, lacks a certain something....an overwhelming awe of a Holy God who could pardon even the chief of sinners...an overcoming security based only upon His faithfulness in spite of our weaknesses....and a sure hope that drives one to know more and more of this majestic God and His power and love and righteousness and mercy; to you I can only say there is more, more than your heart can hold, and it is necessary, and He never turns anyone away who desires to know Him!
Use your analytical skills. Do you think that the martyrdom, sacrifice and persecution of so many, all to put one more jot and one more tittle to paper, to protect the Word of God, and-at risk of burning at the stake-to disseminate it....does that not give you even a hint that there is more here than what we have come to believe? Does not centuries of missionary dedication, of serving in huts and jungles and rice fields, all the while rejoicing in that that book would be read anew in a new language...does all of this not make you wonder what the fuss was all about? Does it not stir in you even the slightest interest in picking up a Bible...you probably have one within a few feet of where you are reading this...and asking of God that if this is truly His infallible written Word, then would He display its power that has heretofore not been seen, have mercy on one who has ignored it for so long, and reveal that person who has been known only as Jesus, but whom others have referred to as a Kings of kings and Lord of lords, and Alpha and Omega, and Light of the World, and Word of Life, and Lord of All, and Bread of Life, and Rock, and Resurrection and Life, and Way the Truth and the Life, and the Author of Life?
