God is REAL
Questions that cannot be Answered?
Hello there… Long time, no write. I know. Mea culpa and apologies all around. (no.. not THOSE “Apologies” as you see soon.
I woke up this morning to find in my Reader a question. The question above to be precise. I guess as a christian, former missionary, former “minister” ie. Servant of different kinds over the years, the one question… if i had to pick just One… would be in perhaps Several permutations…
Can you Prove that God Exists?
How do you Know that God Exists?
Is there actual Evidence that God Exists?
… and the ‘slightly’ more nuanced, yet also slightly my ‘ad hom’ intended..
Why do You Believe that God Exists?
The last is really more of a challenge on the Person rather than the Question… and a question of Belief rather than Knowledge.
So… The “Can you prove that God exists?” Question. Yup, not my favorite question. Because it’s asking the wrong question of the wrong person.
The real question is Do you Believe that God exists? And the questioner really should be asking his or her own self, not someone else. The answer to that question… will determine the direction, path and everything else in your life, oh reader.
“You have said, ‘seek my face’ and I will Seek your face”
– barabbas
Faith Beyond my “As long as…”
I’m not Catholic, but i found this very helpful. Maybe you will as well. – Barabbas
Encounter on the Way Home
I was 15yrs old. It was a cold November afternoon… and I met Jesus in the front room over cookies and hot chocolate
I went just to shut the old guy up and ended up being ‘lifted’ and then ‘pulled’ up front… where i met Jesus in a swirl of emotion and tears. I was 22yrs old
God met me… as I scrolled thru youtube videos. Hillsongs led me back to Christ… I wernt back “Home”.
God has an “Encounter” waiting for you. It’s just a matter of whether you’ve gotten there yet. Only He and You really know when and where.
Be ready. And say YES. Come Home
- Barabbas
“Resistance is Futile”
Proverbs 9:6-10 KJV [6] Forsake the foolish, and live; And go in the way of understanding. [7] He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: And he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. [8] Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. [9] Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. [10] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the holy is understanding. https://bible.com/bible/1/pro.9.7.KJV
So… I’ve been doing this WP for awhile now… and ive learned just a few things. The most important is this…
Resistance is Futile
No… I don’t mean what you may think I mean. Not your resistance to the message of Christ and the Gospel is futile.
I mean… in “conversation” with people on the internet, be they those who don’t believe Jesus is the Saviour of the World or even that God “so loved” them that He “gave His Only Begotten Son” that they would be saved… but also those who DO believe that “there is only One Name by which we all must be saved”…
I’ve learned that in “conversation” with either side of the Coin (see mark 12.17) Believer or not… when I get nothing but double downs and “resistance” in return, further “conversation” is Futile. Their Resistance becomes a Futile exercise in just arguing back and forth and perhaps, in some cases, counterproductive to sharing “Truth in Love”.
In these cases… rather than rescuing my Pride and trying to “win the Argument when the Person has left the Building”… for me anyway, the best option is Never to keep fighting it out.
My best course of action is to withdraw from the Field of said “Futile Conversation”. Sure, it sounds like cowardice. I agree that the other Person may think they “Won” and I’m weak and stupid and… insert your favorite pejorative here…
But I’ve learned… Resistance in the face of Truth and Jesus Christ Himself is my clue that the intended conversation has become Futile and Foolish. And I shouldn’t let myself be drawn in further to “poo flinging” ad homs and Pride Establishing arguments.
It’s all about Responses… not about my eloquence or ability to “convince” others of the Gospel’s “power unto salvation” (see romans 1.16). Not my job. Never has been. Only the Holy Spirit can “convict and convince”.
It may seem Foolish… as foolish as those who reject the Saviour with still outstretched arms to save them.
Jesus is the Saviour… Not me. Now THAT would be foolish and futile. Lol
-barabbas
Wednesday Worship: New Wine from Old Wineskins
Let Hillsongs bring you back to Christ. It did me. – Barabbas
Well, have you?
— Barabbas
But God and His Word have not.
We don’t need a “Language Fluid” or a “Trans” Bible. We need God’s Word, to God’s People for God’s purposes.
— Barabbas
Present Ourselves for Service in the Body and in the World as His Expression
https://www.scottsdalechurch.org/mediaPlayer/#/sermonvideo/339
This is an important message that the Body of Christ needs to hear. Its not just “do, do, do”, but BE, BE, BE…
Rom 12.1-2
Acts 1.8
1 john 4.17
Please consider the Words of God and the Speaking of my brother and then… “Go and do thou likewise”.
— Barabbas
Grace Provides the Choice
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 KJV
[15] See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; [16] in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. [17] But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; [18] I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. [19] I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: [20] that thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
From the reading today. Grace provides the remedy for our sin and calls us to choose. Blessed be the God of all Grace and comfort.
— barabbas
Christ in You 