Sometimes I wonder, is there anybody here but me? There’s so many people. But we can feel so alone. Christians believe in a big God. Loneliness still happens.
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It’s time to look at Justice and Love to the Ancient Ones. Remember, the ancient ones created our species. We had a lot to learn. Justice was important to the ancient ones, so they wanted us to share the same feeling about it. But justice, by itself, can be just as brutal as a world with no justice. And so, the ancient ones also taught us about love. But, it was a slow process.
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Do you mourn over the loss of in-person church services? If so, you’re not alone. But my question is actually more about the mourning. The process. The reasons why you mourn. That’s because the Bible actually gives us lessons, of a sort, on how and why to mourn. They’re in one of those Old Testament books that we don’t really like to read.
Lamentations is all about mourning. Grieving. All the gory details of what happened to Jerusalem, Judah, Zion, the Israelites when they were defeated by Nebuchadnezzar and sent into exile.
I believe they can help us today as well,
with COVID and the loss of in-person church services.
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Is not testing really a good idea? You probably think I’m asking about COVID-19 testing. Well, I am, sort of. But only a little bit. Mostly, I’m asking about something else. However, looking at the question with an eye towards COVID does help come up with a valid answer for my actual topic.
Do we then really want to go through the rest of our lives with absolutely no idea as to whether or not likely to achieve that goal?
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Is Covid-19 a modern-day exile scenario?
We look at the virus as a bad thing, maybe from God. However, those who have read the Bible know that sometimes God allows bad things in order to bring about better things. Or to wake up His people.
So, what if this is God’s way of showing us that we need to wake up? We’re supposed to be living in this world as if we’re in exile – right here, wherever we are. In exile from our Heavenly home. But we’re too busy turning this into a false “heaven on earth” kind of thing.
And we’re falling in love with it. And by doing that, we’re at risk of losing our real Heavenly home that God created for us.
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If God is here, where is He? That question seems to have a lot of doubt built into it. Not since God is here, or since God exists, but If God is here. Not to mention the obvious doubt that God is here, since there’s no apparent evidence of Him.
However, there are people who end up at this site looking for answers to questions like these two:
What does God want?
Does God cry when we die?
These are people that believe that at least God is here, but maybe wondering whether he still cares.
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Demanding the meaning of truth. It’s from an interesting song – Freedom for the World. Full of hope – like the title words, demanding the meaning of truth. Also full of warnings like, if we don’t get it together we’ll be gone. Not to mention the conclusion, Look to your heart and let love lead the way. The irony is that depending on your point of view, the words of the song lead to wildly varying meanings of truth! We will, of course, look at it from a Christian point of view.
Not the “nominal” Christian who tends to be little more than Christian in name only. Or from the “average” Christian, who follows the parts of Jesus’ teachings that they like, and finds ways to rationalize ignoring the things they don’t like. Instead, we’ll look at it from the point of view of the way Christians are actually taught to live. A way that none actually achieve, other than Jesus Himself.
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Do Christians really know what “Christian Hope” is? In a word – no.
“Most of we Christians are blind to the truth of who we really are, and so are afraid to enter the valley of the shadow of death to find the light beyond it. Our hope is that we’ll find it in the next life and so remain powerless in this life, yes?”
from “Waking Up: To Who You Really Are (If You Dare)” by Ted Dekker
I really like reading Ted Dekker.
Although – sometimes it’s just so hard realizing that what he says is just a bit too true.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit. Seriously? The poor in spirit are blessed? That sounds so backwards! It’s even more strange when it’s translated as happy are the poor in spirit! It seems like it should be blessed are the rich in spirit. And yet, that’s not what Jesus said. So what did Jesus mean when He said what we now call the first of the Beatitudes?
Mt 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
When we read the whole verse, it sounds even more backwards. How can the kingdom of Heaven be for those who are poor in spirit? Isn’t it for the “good Christians” who are “rich in spirit”?
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Search me, know my heart, test me. Who would ever say these things? Do you say them? Maybe you should. Ps 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. That’s from Psalms. So if you’re a Christian, you should be asking this question. Asking no less than
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