God and life
My brother and I were having a discussion about religion and faith a few months back. There is something that has stuck with me like glue on my shoe, not always thought about but always there. “I am glad to see that you and our other brother have found something that you can believe in. But for me God is to far out from the world to matter. I am just going to try and figure out life first.” His words stuck with me because they were something that I have always seen and I still see. It was thoughts like that which kept me form God for so long. It was not until I caught a glimpse of life in God that I started to see something different.
There is so much focus on the world beyond. The glory of heaven and the damnation of hell. We are not capable of comprehending the fullness of those things so why do we even bother. Look at them but do not wait time on them. In contrast to what is beyond, I feel like there is a definite possibility that one could comprehend life. I’m not saying that it happens regularly, but I would like to hope that if one dedicated them selves to it one could comprehend. So I say live life.
But then where does God come into it all? Why does he matter in a life that is nothing to him? He matters because he is who lays the path before us. He is the light house for all us ships on the ocean of life. Guiding us to solid ground and helping use avoid being dashed against the rocks. The land is truth and the truth can kill. (My views on God are different from many others and I know that many do not like them but I will say them anyway because it is my life and I must do what is on my path.) I see God as the teacher. The one that is showing the children about the truth. And we must listen. I feel that there are a good many people who get hung up on the fact of God and miss what he is trying to teach them. Like a person that admires their prof. but could tell you nothing of what they lectured on. God is father and creator, yes, but he is more, he is trying to show us something more. Trying to speak to us without dashing us on the rocks with the simple whisper from his lips. Like a father trying to teach his son how to work on a car but the son it deaf and distracted by the simple movement of the tools.
I feel that one of the reasons for life is to learn. So how can we learn? Some might say that the best way to learn is to read so they read. Others listen. I learn best by doing. I learn by getting so frustrated that I can think of nothing but the problem and then when I get it I never forget it. The frustration is building I just pray that God will be patient with me. I just wish that I figure out the problem that I am getting frustrated with.
There is so much focus on the world beyond. The glory of heaven and the damnation of hell. We are not capable of comprehending the fullness of those things so why do we even bother. Look at them but do not wait time on them. In contrast to what is beyond, I feel like there is a definite possibility that one could comprehend life. I’m not saying that it happens regularly, but I would like to hope that if one dedicated them selves to it one could comprehend. So I say live life.
But then where does God come into it all? Why does he matter in a life that is nothing to him? He matters because he is who lays the path before us. He is the light house for all us ships on the ocean of life. Guiding us to solid ground and helping use avoid being dashed against the rocks. The land is truth and the truth can kill. (My views on God are different from many others and I know that many do not like them but I will say them anyway because it is my life and I must do what is on my path.) I see God as the teacher. The one that is showing the children about the truth. And we must listen. I feel that there are a good many people who get hung up on the fact of God and miss what he is trying to teach them. Like a person that admires their prof. but could tell you nothing of what they lectured on. God is father and creator, yes, but he is more, he is trying to show us something more. Trying to speak to us without dashing us on the rocks with the simple whisper from his lips. Like a father trying to teach his son how to work on a car but the son it deaf and distracted by the simple movement of the tools.
I feel that one of the reasons for life is to learn. So how can we learn? Some might say that the best way to learn is to read so they read. Others listen. I learn best by doing. I learn by getting so frustrated that I can think of nothing but the problem and then when I get it I never forget it. The frustration is building I just pray that God will be patient with me. I just wish that I figure out the problem that I am getting frustrated with.
posted by The Golden Retirver at 14:09
1 Comments:
my only prayer since last semester has been, 'please don't give up on me.'
i'm finding out that he doesn't. think about it...why would you have these thoughts and still feel like you're honoring him if he didn't have something to do with it? if you can fathom a life greater than the one that people tell you God provides, there's something wrong.
what i admire about you is that you're not afraid to doubt and question; a quality so rarely found in christians today. i think that people are so afraid that if they question, their belief system will crumble.
funny thing...unless it crumbles, God can never show them who he is.
he's not giving up on you...and he'll be patient. believe me...he will be.
i'm encouraged by your zeal for life that surpasses your concern for eternity.
danielle
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