On this night.
My thoughts are aplenty.
Each concept has much potential
to become an entire story in itself.
What if everything you've grown up knowing,
isn't really the way it is?
Or atleast, not exactly.
Of course it makes sense to you,
anyone will try to justify that what
they are doing is right or okay.
What if the way you were taught to be 'good'
isn't at all the way it is?
Or atleast there's more to what you've been taught?
However you perceive the word good
is atleast somewhat of a reflection of the
way you were raised.
But who came up with good?
Was it just created because it seemed
to "work for us"?
Where did we get this standard
of goodness by which we judge evil as evil?
Our parents?
Our parents parents?
How far do these 'teachings' date back to?
"We testify the reality of God
by recognizing evil by assuming
there's an objective standard
on which it's based." -A Case For Faith - Lee Strobel
God made the standard.
The bible tells us this.
I've learned just how reliable of a source
the Bible really is.
[by The Verdict - Andy Stanley]
It's not just a book.
It's a series of books,
four of which are written by
four different witnessess,
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John,
about the same Jewish carpenter,
over the same 3 years.
The stories, despite from different
perspectives are nearly identical.
What if, what you were taught in school,
as far as your history books go,
aren't exactly telling the full story?
What if the supernatural content of the Bible
was the reason for not including much of it
in our textbooks?
That stuff can't really happen anyway, right?
I mean, I've never seen it happen.
so it couldn't have ever existed right?
What if I said I didn't believe
the Holocaust happend?
I wasn't alive during this time,
and I don't believe that
that much hate and discrimination
can possibly exist
so I don't think it happend.
Our textbooks tell us it did though, right?
What if, there's a matrix.
A system of spiritual evil
that parallels the world we live in.
That we, as humans cannot see.
And it's job is to corrupt our society.
Seeing God as the "competition" or the "enemy"
it tells us that "it's just the way the world is."
"It's just what men do. They're only pictures..."
or
"It's just what girls do. They're only words..."
"c'est la vie"?
The truth is,
as crazy as all this sounds.
Going off of my learning of
how truly reliable of a source
the Bible is,
[It] tells us all of this.
The standard of good.
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." -Romans 3:23-24
The concept of the Matrix.
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world". -1 John 2:15-16
**The word "world" was translated from the Greek word "cosmos"
meaning "a system" or an "order".
Something not of God.**
Also:
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark worldand against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." -Ephesians 6:12
& the idea that God is all we need.
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you willbear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." -John 15:5
Tonight I had an epiphany.
And it's something so simple
that I think it's too simple.
People overlook it.
They say,
"that can't work".
"when you come back from your world
of make believe, give me a call".
But I couldn't possibly be anymore
sure when saying this:
When all you have is God,
you realize that He is all you need.
I've realized how greedy I am.
Everything materalistic that I have,
it's just stuff.
None of it matters.
None.
The things of this world that we fill
our minds with
our days with,
our time with,
keep us from God.
It creates this white noise
that shuts Him out.
And we can't hear His whispers
amongst the noise.
He provides everything,
and I truly believe when we accept
this, and trust it, we live the most
blessed life.
A life we could never have imagined
before.
Once I accepted this reality,
I was no longer hungry.
And not just for food,
but for anything my sinful nature
tells me is okay.
The only thing I became
hungry for was Jesus.
To spend time with Him.
And ask Him to teach me.
Oh, self, how much time
i've been wasting.
God's little box of purpose for me
has only begun to open.
But the time I've been given
to do it
has not stopped.
I've never felt more distant
from this world than now.
I even have the physical feeling
that "this body is only temporary".
My soul feels so connected
to God outside of this world.
It's the only thing I need.
He's the only thing I need.
But to survive on this Earth,
to truly do the work God has for me.
I need fingers to type,
feet to walk,
a mouth to speak His word
and a heart to break for what breaks His.
"If death has no meaning, how can life have meaning?
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