I can do all things through Christ who gives me the Strength to do them. That’s all it takes to get strength to do anything. All you gotta do is believe Christ gives you that strength through trusting in him. I know what you’re thinking though… “how in the world can I trust in someone/something I can’t see.” And “what makes christianity different from a cult.” Yeah good questions. Answer to all those: FAITH. You have faith and believe in someone you can’t see, but have faith and a solid hope that it did actually happen, he did actually die on a cross.
You then have questions like “how will you know you’re a christian and how can you find out you’re truly a Christian?” That’s something I can’t explain too easily but let me throw some stuff out there. You will know you’re a christian when you feel God working in your life. Those times where you think it’s impossible to do something, and then you were able to do it. Or those times in life where something happens that beyond any doubt, it was Christ working in you. Those are the times that God is at work in your life. The time that you become a christian is when you have faith, trust, hope and understanding that God and his sending Jesus Christ to the earth to show us how to live, die for us, get us a ticket to pure joy, living the right way righteously, and giving us the capability to even be able to be in connection to God… that’s when you become a christian.
That’s all it takes. So then you ask questions like “there’s gotta be a catch right?” My answer to that is: no. No catch at all. It’s all purely simple. It’s just a matter of you actually doing it. It may cause you to think outside of your box. It may cause you to be uncomfortable, but if you wanna be in communication with your creator then there you go. That’s all it takes.
You may also have questions like “how do I pray then and who to?” My answer: pray by just talking to God. It may seem like you’re talking to nobody at all at first. That’s because you just don’t exactly believe and have faith that God and him sending his son to die is real. It’s ok. I think every single person who is a christian has gone through this. It’s normal. But here’s the point. The point is to keep praying. Keep talking to God through any kind of method you think: writing, reading, eating, thinking, talking, etc. God does listen to you. If you think he isn’t listening then tell me why you think that. It’s probably because of the stuff in your life and/or the stuff in other peoples lives… I know this too. I got friends and family who think God doesn’t listen when something goes wrong or not their way at all. All I can say is continue to pray, even if you think nobody is listening, God is listening and he will answer.
Then you ask “how will God answer?” He answers through anything happening in our lives. Look at the facts. Something goes wrong in life: cause and effect. But when you add God in the picture, it not only shows a direction in which God wants you to go, but a purpose for why you’re going in that direction. God answers through the Bible also. The Bible has tons of answers to pretty much alot of our problems. All you gotta do is open it up, pray for God to show something, anything to you, and start reading. God is the one who opens up your mind, getting you to think outside the box, outside of yourself, and into a more and more whole picture. I 100% believe that if you’re in the Bible truly reading it trying to understand it, then God is gonna open your mind to more and more stuff in the Bible that will help you figure out stuff/problems in your life. Just be in prayer/talk to God about it.
Then you’ll probably ask the questions everyone ask: why. Why does God allow bad stuff to happen to people? Why does God not just save us in the beginning of time and let us in heaven? Why is there so much work to this christianity thing?
Ok why. God allows bad stuff to happen to people to teach all kinds of things. Think of God as you think of a parent and child. God is the father and the child is us. He teaches patience, understanding, expanding the mind, trusting him more, etc. He didn’t save us in the beginning because he knew before he even created us with freedom that naturally we’d be rebellious. We wouldn’t want to be with him. We’d want to be free. And since we were just created, having minds of a baby, we weren’t smart enough to be wise about stuff in our lives, hence the reason God is the father, to teach us whats right and whats not. All wrong things do lead to destruction in the end. So my philosophy is to just stay clear of most of the crap… but sometimes that’s impossible and that’s what defines us as humans, incapable of not sinning. You see, if God allowed into heaven ahead of time, we’d rebel our way to destruction and God hates evil. He can’t stand sin. He can’t be near. Nothing that’s rebellious or destructive will ever be near him. Because he loves us so much, he disciplines us to protect us in the end from becoming crap.
There’s so much work to this christianity thing because we’re naturally sinful people who naturally habitually sin and do stupid stuff. None of us are incapable of sinning. We’re all sinful people and naturally and habitually sin and head towards destruction. The work is attempting and sometimes successfully for a little time staying away from sin. It’s never a day without sin. We work at attempting to keep away from doing crap habitually.
Then you ask a question like “can’t I just not work on it, and sin, but still believe in God and his son Jesus dying on the cross? Good question. You can try, but will be unsuccessful in the end if you’re truly a Christian believer who believes that Jesus Christ died on the cross. Those that currently are not working on it, sin, and still believe, are gonna get their whatever in heaven. What I mean by whatever is God will judge us in the end. When you die, God will judge you on everything you did in your life. He will sit you on a bench of some sort and go through your life. He will tell you where you were wrong, where you were right, where you were being carried, etc. He will then reward you for the areas you committed to living better and away from destruction. He will also do some sort of discipline in the end of what you didn’t do right. It’s sounds harsh? It’s not really that harsh because during that time you’re getting judged, you will already realize how awesome God is and his mercy on our lives.
You might say that’s crap. Or yeah right? Did you know that was our true purpose on earth to begin with? Our true purpose started where Adam and Eve were created. We were created to worship God and to enjoy him. This is best shown through him providing for us and us being thankful for that. You see, in the garden of Eden, God supplied Adam and Eve with everything they ever needed or wanted. Period. Now we have to work for everything. Sucks eh? Yeah that’s because of sin that came about during that time of Adam and Eve.
Some of you might say: “this is bullcrap.” Yeah I thought so too. But now I don’t. I used to think life was all about work. Work work work work work. I was wrong. It’s about love, relationships, family, etc. It’s about the stuff we have already. But where did all this love originate from? What is my true purpose within this love relationship settings? It’s to be thankful for what God provides already. That’s our purpose. That’s what it means to ENJOY God. How do you enjoy gifts your parents give you? You use them, etc. Same thing with God. He gave us life. We enjoy that life through thankfulness. Make sense?
So what would be your next question be? Would it be… what makes this different from a cult? A cult is believing in something that is not satisfactory eternally. Christianity, or better known as “God sending Jesus to earth to show us how to live and be in connection to God,” is different from a cult. It’s believing in something satisfactory eternally. We’re talking about finding your purpose within a world completely lost. You ever watch the matrix? You ever see that part where Neo has to choose whether or not he has to take the red pill or the blue pill? That rabbit hole they talk about in that scene is Christianity. It’s seeing battles you couldn’t see with the naked eye. Those battles, whether or not with flying ninja crap, are spiritual battles. The evil wins then destruction occurs and you don’t live. The good wins and you got hope, purpose, and a future set. You exist for more than nothing. A cult leads to destruction in the end. Christianity, if you’re a real christian, leads to eternal purpose, hope, and a future set, existing for more than nothing.
I probably lost you back somewhere along in this super long note that was supposed to be a normal blog entry, but eh it’s God working through me. My goal is to show everyone they have purpose in this world. There’s more to life than what they do now, those that don’t believe in Christ, or have backed away from believing and living for that. I hope I was able to release some questions built up about this whole christianity thing you been thinking about.
That’s why I say I struggle with things. Struggling is fighting against doing something for myself that will lead to destruction in the end. We all struggle.
Do you wanna talk about it some more or ask questions? Just comment this if you want. I’ll try to clear it up a little. Help you mull through this. The word mulling I got from a cow. A cow has three stomachs. A cow chews up this crap and it goes through the first stomach mulches up, then up to the cows mouth again for more chewing, then down to the second stomach and more mulching, and up again… in the end it’s called mulling. When we mull through a question it means to chew up the question in our heads, talk about it, then chew on it some more. Really it’s like bouncing ideas off each other. So if you wanna talk about it or ask questions comment if you wanna.
Do you want to become familiar with God and know him personally. We now know that this is only possible through God sending his son to die here on earth on a cross. Our sins, past, present, and future, all died there too. We have communication and connection to God now. Here’s what I have done that helps me know God personally:
“God, I didn’t know some of this stuff that’s written here. I know now you created me originally with a purpose of loving you through thankfulness. I know that I’m a sinner because of what happened back in Bible times with Adam and Eve. I understand a little about your son who you sent to this earth to die for my sins/problems. I know that he showed us humans how to live on this earth through his own life living here. I know that he sacrificed himself on a cross, taking our sins with him there, the sins and him both dying on the cross there just so you and I could have communication and connection. Thank you for what you’ve done. I hope that I can learn more about this. Please open up my eyes more so I can figure out why things happened the way they do. Show me purpose in my life now. Thank you again for helping me realize this stuff right here. Amen.”
