“Pastor,
I just cannot believe in a God who allows such suffering. All the
killing, all the anguish, and all the injustice. No sir, I just can’t
believe in that God.”
I
heard this more than once. People who look at the effects of the devil
and decide that God cannot be be real or cannot be trusted.
My response?
“Well
that’s fine then, don’t believe in Him. But let me ask you this, what
do you do with Jesus Christ? Not the happy-slappy Jesus that gives you
everything that makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise. I mean the Jesus
who actually and factually rose back to life from the dead?”
“Aww pastor, you don’t mean to say that you believe that story now do you?”
“Yes
indeed I do. Jesus the Christ, the one who died on the Cross, was
buried, and on the 3rd day was resurrected back to life and is alive
today: He believed in the God you say you can’t believe in.“
Usually
a discussion like this goes a variety of directions from here with
people, but the question always remains, “What do you do with Jesus?”
If
Jesus actually factually rose back to life from the dead, that should
change you. Seriously, if a dead man rose back to life from the grave
and actually exists in the spiritual world, that should so rock our
soul’s core being that we can’t help but be forever transformed into one
of his created beings. And despite the reality of the evil that takes
place in this world, we will then have intimate knowledge that the evil
of this world has been, and is being, addressed by the Creator God.
Has
your very soul been rocked to its core? Have you had a revelatory
moment with the Living Jesus? If so then you’ll never be the same, and
if not, everything will remain the same for you.
Consider
Christ carefully. Get a Charlie-horse in your Brain even but consider
him until your heart is blessed and repentance comes naturally, for when
that happens you’ll know with certainty that Jesus is alive and well.
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