THANK GOD!
Yes, you really should! I bet you thought this was going to be an article
about being "glad" about something else besides our Creator. Well you're
wrong. It is really about our Lord.
So many people forget to thank him for our existence. When you go to the
post office to get your mail do you thank him for the orders you received
that day? Do you thank him for being able to pay your rent this month? Do
you thank him for the car that you drive? Do you only thank him for the big
things and not the little things?
Suppose you landed on a planet of people that had the mentally of cavemen
and you fell in love with these people and felt sorry for them. You spent
years living among them, showing them ways to advance their knowledge and
how to quit fighting. You taught them the benefits of loving their neighbor
and existing in perfect harmony with nature. Then you left and came back to
Earth.
Several years later you decided to check in on these people. Unfortunately,
they had turned into a planet full of hatred. They used the tools you
taught them to make to kill each other -- and they didn't just kill, they
tortured and mutilated their little children. Would you feel like you had
failed? Would you want to wipe the entire race of people out, or seek only
the "good" ones and start all over again?
Most of us would -- but I'm glad we're not God. It's only because of his
love and infinite mercy that our world continues to turn on it's axis. We
have destroyed the planet, our bodies and our minds. But are we lost?
Certainly not. God is not going to wipe us out yet -- he only wants us to
feel sorry about what we've done, bow our heads and just tell him that we
love him -- and be saved!
The problem is --
. . . people make God out to be a fairy tale. They forget the blue sky
didn't just appear one day. They forget the green grass they are walking on
isn't there because some farmer planted some grass seed. How did the grass
seed come into existence? What magnificent ability can cause genes,
chromosomes and DNA to perfectly form to create a new baby that grows up to
be a man or woman? If science is the answer, then how come a scientist
cannot produce life without the basic elements like genes, chromosomes and
DNA?
Back when I was not saved, I rented the movie "The Miracle of Life." The
movie starts out showing how the sperm enters the egg and immediately
begins to form a living human being. Can you even begin to understand "how"
the sperm knows exactly where to go? It doesn't have a brain! How does a
new born animal know to find food from it's mother's milk? No one has
taught it this. It knows this only by instinct. Who programd this
instinct?
How do trees provide oxygen? How do bees know what flowers to go to in
order to produce honey? How does hair know to grow on your head instead of
the bottoms of your feet? How does your heart know how to beat at the
precise timing to allow your blood to flow properly through your body? How
does your brain know how to store information? When we eat something, how
does our body know exactly how to break the nutrients down and distribute
them to the proper areas of our body where they are needed?
Doesn't it seem logical that there HAS to be a force behind all these?
These things didn't just happen for no reason whatsoever. You can't take
nothing and except it to form something over a period of years. Nothing
produces nothing.
We are all created beings. We were all created by a Creator with an
intelligence we could never conceive in our human bodies and with the brain
capacity we possess. And our Creator made it very easy for us to learn all
about him. In the day of grace that we all live in -- all we have to do is
love him with all our hearts and soul and mind.
Even the people that worship the sun and the stars and Satan adhere to
certain rituals. They will go to extremes to learn certain words to recite
or practice to carry out regulations set up by their elders. But our Creator
doesn't ask for all this nonsense. He gives us a free will. All he asks is
for us to love one another and Him.
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