Each person has to come to a place in life where it doesn't matter what anyone else says about their relationship and walk with Jesus. When you have been through the fire with Jesus and came out with Him alive and still breathing because He was there and for no other reason. When that happens you know He is there in this life with you. And you live like it in spite of all human logic. Some believers will totally get what you are saying while others have nothing but questions of doubt of why it couldn't be what you profess.
I only skimmed through some of the words that were written here by some of you men and saw the word witchcraft came up.
So trusting Jesus to take care of us in the face of all human reasoning and logic is witchcraft someone said? . Some people can not believe that a Christian can be in the center of a war and not get shot. You cannot believe that God would deliver you when He didn't deliver others.
I have learned I must take God at His word before I walk it out in life. Read Psalm 91 and walked it out and although it goes against all human reason because a thousand may fall at your side and 10 thousand at your right hand; but it shall not approach you, you only look on with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked. For you have made the Lord my refuge, Even the Most High your dwelling place. No evil will befall you Nor will any plague come near your tent.
It never occurs to some that we come into this world alone and naked and when we die we will die the same way. But the difference for the believer is we know He was aware of us and with us from the start and through to the end. No one else can answer for our lives and what we did and what we believe but us. So your walk with Jesus is yours alone. And for me, I take it Jesus and me. So when other people are going through joys or sorrows, I can't compare myself to them. I'm admonished not to judge life according to how others live their lives or by what has happened to them. I'm told to keep my eyes on Jesus. He is faithful.
Some say....how come that one died and he was innocent and that one stayed alive and he was guilty? It must mean God is not involved and we are all subject to the elements all the same as any other human on earth. So many believers build their lives around trusting God only for the after life, not for today in the here and now. It's the ONLY thing that makes sense to their human reason as to why God didn't come through. Even when the Bible is clear He will take care of us now., and He will show us above and beyond what we can even ask or think. But He requires something that in our humaness we can't give apart from supernatural faith. That is why even faith the size of a mustard seed is amazing.
FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES HERE ON EARTH as Christians, we will be confronted with contradictions about God. We will see horrible things and horrible suffering. We will see sin in action and how evil will grow bitter and rotten fruit. It will be all around us but in spite of that, we have God's promises when we trust Him it will not come neigh unto us. We will walk and not be weary we will run and not faint. If we are looking to Him and refuse to look around us and take the world (into) us above our faith in Him, we WILL see amazing things our God will do.
We will experience the world too but faith in Him and what Jesus did on the cross to defeat the enemy will get us through so that it will not over take us. We are admonished as we go through trials to trust Him to get us through to the other side. I know the evil does not come from God but God will take the experiences before us and use them for our learning. The devil is the one who comes to kill., steel and destroy... not God. Jesus came that we might have life and that more abundantly. Faith is needed here on earth.,, we are not exhorted to have faith when we get to heaven., we are not going to need it there. Its NOW we need to walk by faith and not by sight.
Another one of the difficult things we will be learning is not to look at other believers and COMPARE our lives with theirs. Why did you bless them and not me Lord?? Or.. Why did they die and not me Lord?? Why have you allowed this most wonderful brother to die and he loved you more than I do or ever could., why Lord?? Why did you allow that innocent child who is so pure die and me who is unworthy stay alive Lord? Times like this we are CONSTANTLY CALLED to look to Jesus and know WE ARE NOT PRIVY to all He is privy too because He is God and we are not God. We do not have all the answers and we are not called to have the answers. But what we are called to is to trust Him irregardless of what we see around us.
That is my answer to you guys about why this this way or why that is that way. God delivered me from many storms and floods in my life. I count Him totally faithful and have made it my goal to keep looking at Him when all around me is falling apart. I have seen Him do amazing things already. He has shown Himself to be worthy of Praise and glory and honor. He deserves my trust. Let God be God., and every man a liar. That means to me even wonderful amazing good people and the beauty of the earth and even a good name, all on earth will not last and endure. But God always will and I'm in Him and He is in me. He will abide forever and my hope has got to be in Him and nothing else. Trust in the Lord with all your heart AND LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING...IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE WILL DIRECT YOUR PATHS.
He calls each of us to believe this way. He doesn't love one of us more than the other. One of Jesus disciples John., was called the one that Jesus loved. Jesus didn't love John more., John believed Jesus loved him and lived his life out that way. John ended up taking care of Jesus mother. Jesus love was real to him so much so he lived his life out in that truth. Believing Jesus loves you is the beginning of seeing Him show through in your life.
