This month there are three verses that I'd like to share that have strong significance in our lives. The first relates to anyone who struggles with the ideas or principles of God, whether athiest, agnostic, lukewarm Christian or strong Christian, Buddhist, Jainist, or anyone else. It is for those who doubt, which is everyone at some point.
"Be merciful to those who doubt." - Jude 22
Jesus loved the sinners - the tax collecters - and the doubters - the Pharisees and His disciples - yet he rebuked them, and that is what God has called us to do, to love and provide accountability to doubters; to be merciful as God has been to us.
The next verse has been convicting in my life as I have seen - through past experiences and philosophical discussions - with athiests that our understandings of God vary much so. Even as Christians we tend to "box God" and limit his possibilities.
"Jesus replied, 'What is impossible with men is possible with God.'" - Luke 18:27
Now if we as philosophers and doubters and Christians and human beings in general, if we can get this through our head that God is limitless, now let's discuss His possibilities, shall we?
And the final verse comes from the King James Version Bible and deals with the fact that God provides.
"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." - Hebrews 13:5
God will never leave you, so in all doubt and struggle, why should we look to things less than God and make them bigger than they are? God is already so big, what more could we want - than a [merciful] and [limitless] and [omnipresent] being?
Friday, June 26, 2009
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