This story starts with a quote. “”For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.” – Thomas A Kempis.
Being a Christian is a trialing way of life. The ecstatic points of realisation and sheer amazement at the Lord’s creation versus the low moments when you are shut down, mercilessly argued against, and seeds of doubt bloom amongst your battered thoughts.
Treading along the firebreak in the dusty bottom paddock of my farm in the dry hot summer of my hometown, I was perplexed when I trod on a green shoot emerging from the dust. I glanced up and took in a wide view of my surroundings. I usually take no notice of where I walk, what I happen across, the ground upon which my feet take their daily steps. I usually stick to my own trite and trivial thoughts, consumed in the immediate future: “What am I going to wear today?”; “What time is The Simpsons on?”; “I think I might go downstairs and play Playstation for a while”; “I wonder if Mary-Alice has broken up with her boyfriend yet…”.
But today was different- I looked around me and I saw. For real.
God’s creation was staring me in the face; pale cerulean sky flecked with wisps of white cloud, meeting on the horizon with hard brown dusty earth that held me standing there; the sunlight hot against my face which I usually tried to block out as the annoyance and discomfort factors were high. But today, I let it take over; the sun was like a message flooding my body with warmth and love. Love for the ground I was standing on, for my family, for God and His creation.
The Term Paper on Society Today Is Confronted By A Profound Crisis And Challenge part 1
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It felt as though He was standing there beside me, showing me things one by one, directing my vision sequentially to new things I hadn’t noticed in their entirety before. It was an experience I don’t believe I will ever forget.
Much later down the track as I sat on the school lawn in my new town (an extreme opposite scene to the one where I experienced my first revelation: rich azure skies with cream tufts of fluffy, fleecy clouds hanging in all their royalty, and matched to a horizon of deep green grass, soft enough to sleep on, sprinkled with small flowers of bright colours), I was again reveling in the wonder of how any being could have dreamed up such a place, when a person made a comment.
This comment flourished into a debate over the existence of a higher being. Whenever I spoke a rebuttal, I was shot down, my view dismissed for the fact I had no evidence to prove it. I expressed that the Bible is evidence of my whole belief, but again, this was argued against and I began questioning myself and why I believe what I believe. I began seeing these things from a different point of view – “I have no hard evidence of God or Jesus or the deity of Christ; nothing I have seen with my own eyes to prove to me this was created by the Lord, if he even existed. Why was there suffering if there is a God who loves us? Why do bad things happen to good people? If a forgiving god really does exist, how can there be a Hell?” These seedlings of doubt forced me to reevaluate, think deeply and make my own judgments and conclusions.
But I came back to the same answer. This cannot have all been some accident of nature which happened to turn out pretty good. There was a plan. An extremely accurate, detailed, passionately thought about plan which was erupted into reality by the Creator. I cannot answer all questions about how God plans and acts and makes decisions, but I can however place my trust and faith into Him and know he has a plan for me, and everyone else and know my duty to stand up for my beliefs and not let people upset me by putting down what I believe in. Instead, we must love these people, and continue sharing with them the good news of the Lord, even when they refuse to change their beliefs or take into account the things you say. Hopefully, just maybe one day you might plant a seedling of doubt into their mind, forcing them to examine the way they live and the way they perceive life and creation, and reform their conclusions and core beliefs. This is all I can hope and pray for, and maybe my own faith will strengthen in the process.
The Essay on Scientist Man Vs Gods Plan
Read from the book of Mark 13:6-8, 12-13, 21-23, 29-31. Now in my sermon today we will analyze the differences between scientific and biblical studies, before Christ, and First, scientist believe in what is know as the human evolution. Now according to the Encarta encyclopedia the Human Evolution, is the biological and cultural development of the species Homo sapiens, or human beings. Now, ...
This is my journey.
It is not over.
