1) God will move through your life despite all of your wrong theologies:
Take it as a relief or a
disappointment, but God is not fixated and nit-picky about making sure that
your ideas of who He is are in perfect order.
(41,000 Christian denominations will prove this point pretty fast.) It can be a humbling realization when we
discover that some ‘fact’ or concept we believed is not (entirely) true. But do not become so worked up about the
little things, as if the reason for our existence was to always be ‘right’. Live with the open mind of a child, God is
far too big for us to ever run short on new discoveries, and so why should we
allow our stubbornness to blind our eyes and tie our feet?
God is far bigger and better than
we have ever imagined.
2) Every face came at the same inconceivable
price:
In these blogs I focus a lot of my
writings on the perspectives that we have regarding other people. It is not about how ‘right’ you do against
how ‘wrong’ someone else does. We are
not here to raise or lower the price tag on something that has already been
purchased. When Christ died for your
freedom, Heaven proved your and all of humanity’s equal worth through the price
that it paid to attain us.
3) Jesus
did not come to give the world a “right religion”:
Let’s give God the credit of
having a little more creativity here.
Since the beginning of time, mankind has come up with countless systems,
prices and steps that they instruct themselves and others to follow in an
attempt to appease or discover God.
Jesus did not come to add his own arguments to the table; he came to
finish the dispute altogether by paying the single price needed for
reconciliation. All humanity has left to
do is realize (a.k.a believe) the friendship that has already been established. And trust me, that realization changes
everything for those that discover it.
4) Your
experiences do not determine or alter truth:
Truth should be expected to bear
fruit in our experiences, but when they do not align as we expected, it is not
a reason to say "all is wrong" and make an about-face and beeline the
other way. One of the most common
reasons that I hear regarding God’s “unwillingness” to physically heal someone,
is their own experience in not seeing a loved one, or even their own selves
healed. But thankfully, our experiences
do not have to determine what we believe, and when we read, "lay hands on
the sick and they will recover," we can feel comfortable leaving it at
just that; without trying to explain our potentials away by something that we
did or did not see. It is the same with
forgiveness. Your mental ability to not
feel forgiven in every moment does not justify the reasoning that your sins
have not been completely wiped clean. It
is the same reasoning that exists in a child when he covers his eyes: his
failure to see you is not equated to him being alone.
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