It Hurts To Be Truthful

One of the hardest thing to do in the world is to be transparent, to be totally truthful about everything you do..

It's much easier to criticize than to build up, doesn't make it the right thing to do.

It doesn't matter that God knows us inside out, our very dreams and hearts desires are his also, so if you think sometimes that you don't wanna be truthful with God, that he wont accept you, or that you don't think he'll forgive you then you are indirectly putting God into a box. Instead look at it like God is un-box-able, yes new word :D. And by being un-box-able his deminsions that he lives and acts with us is incomprehensible.. that's why sometimes the small voice in the back of your mind is God, and other times is just you, wanting it to be God. The more time you spend tryin to be truthful with God the more your heart will let his voice through. It's foolish to think God doesn't speak to us sometimes. God is always speaking to us, always wanting for us to wait for Him and accept His voice. The times we cant hear him is because our heart is not letting it through. It's filled with the stuff not of God, like thoughts of the day and noise from your life.

The best way to hear God is to spend 15 minutes shutting everything out of your mind, anything that isnt on God, and slowly your ears adapt to the quiet, like your eyes to the dark, and Gods voice is as clear as day. The blessings will be poured down becasue YOU have desired Jesus.

The thing that hurts when you tell the truth to God is not his response, it's the self discovery of your own faults.

It hurts when you come to realisation that you have been a useless son, like in the story of the Prodigal Son, it hurts when you realise the servants back in your fathers home are getting paid more then you are, and they are with your Abba, your Daddy.

But that hurt, is nothing to God's hurt when you deny him. the Love he puts into you that you just turn your back to, that hurts! God is a god that will keep loving even when you deny him. That love that was before the world, before anything existed that Love was there, for God is lovee. There nothing that can take that love away. unconditional wonderful love. Love that will take your truths and transform them into blessings, that Grace that flows through us when we desire the Lord is life changing, the powerful and loving voice that says 'I love you' when all is quiet and it's jsut your soul and God's love.

That is the God that welcomes all truth

Yes, truth hurts, but it's a step that transforms your life into the life our God almighty has planned for you.

Just a thought

Shalom!
Shaun

Problem of Evil

The "Problem of Evil" is a philosophical stumbling block for many people. Since the empirical evidence for creation, and therefore a Creator, is stunning, many atheists attack biblical creation on philosophical grounds because they look around them and see all of creation... The primary questions atheists ask are: "If God is real, and God created everything, why did He create evil?" "Why did a personal, loving God create a world in which evil exists?" "Why did God give man freedom to commit evil acts?" Atheists reason, "Surely, an all-knowing God of love would not allow evil to exist in His world."

The response to this often bind bending question is summed up in God's nature and His desire for mankind. Look at the logic: How could God allow for love without the potential for evil? God could have created robots that do nothing more than forever say, "I love you, I love you, I love you." But such creatures would be incapable of a real love relationship. Love is a choice, and the Bible says God desires a real love relationship with His creation.

Love is not real unless was have the ability to not love.

One of God's attributes is omniscience. God knew that in a world with choice, there would be much evil -- to choose not to love is evil by definition. However, there would also be the capacity for real love.

Philosopher Alvin Plantinga writes, "An all loving, all powerful, all knowing Being could permit as much evil as He pleased without forfeiting His claim to being all loving, so long as for every evil state of affairs He permits there is an accompanying greater good".

The potential for love out weighs the existence of evil, especially if evil can only exist for a time. Evil is a side effect of love. Suffering and death are a side effect of evil (Romans 5:12). God says in His Bible that this side effect is only for a time. Evil serves the limited purpose of establishing real love relationships between creation and the Creator, and evil will be done away with after that purpose is achieved. "And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever" (I John 2:17).

Just a thought...
Have a great one

Shaun