A Word For Thought

“If I was God, I would do things differently.”

So, if you were God, and did things differently, would that make people like you, happy?

If you were God, and did things the way you think they should be done, would that make everybody happy?

If you were God, would you care about making everybody happy—or just making you happy?

If you were God, would you still see things the way humans see them, or would you see things the way God does?

If you were God, would you want to have unlimited power, or unlimited wisdom, or both?

 

What if—

What if God’s unlimited wisdom already directs His unlimited power in the best possible way—better than all the eight billion different ideas of people wanting to be in charge?

Wanting to be God, or just wanting the world to be different—does that make any difference?

Is it a waste of time—wishful thinking?

Thinking about being God, is trying to avoid Him and live your own life without Him.

We do not want to be accountable to someone who thinks differently than we do.

 

Many people live like God doesn’t exist, and they imagine that it works for them.

We can’t ignore something out of existence—especially God.

Imagining a different god, or no god, does not affect the fact that God is—that He always has been, and that He is always the same.

We better deal with God on His terms, because He will deal with us on His terms.

 

So, what are God’s terms?

If you look at all the man-made religions, you find tremendous imagination about what God expects of humans.

And we keep inventing more ideas of how to deal with whatever is god.

Can someone break through the fog and make these things clear, for once, and for all (of us)?

 

Okay, here goes:

God is love—that’s good for us—what a relief—I’ll take that kind of God.

God is holy—that’s not so good for us—that’s scary—who wants that kind of God?

God is truth—and He wrote down in words that we can read, the facts that make things clear, for once, and for all (of us).

 

HOW DID ALL THIS GET STARTED?   In the beginning, God created everything, and it was all good.

HOW DID IT GET ALL MESSED UP?  Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, and so do we also sin.

HOW DOES IT GET FIXED?  God’s Son, Jesus, died to pay for our sin, and we can accept His sacrifice and turn from our sin.

HOW DOES IT ALL END?  One day Jesus will take all who accepted Him to a perfect heaven, and all others go to hell.

 

Don’t take my word for it.

Open the Bible and read it.

Don’t debate it or question it.

Don’t try to change it.

And don’t say you didn’t know.

“Astronomers caught a glimpse of the beginning of the universe 13.6 billion years ago.”

—–side story on weatherbug site today

They keep adding years—lots and lots and lots of years—to make more room for their theories.

“Scientists” talking definitively about billions of years is about as credible as me publishing a log of my trips to Mars and back in a travel guide that everybody reads.

It seems like most people actually read and buy their travel guide telling us where we’ve been, a long, long, long time ago.

Fact is, anyone who can tell us where we’ve been, is likely to also tell us where to go (might be favorable to them and not to us)

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I’ve seen an accurate glimpse of the beginning of the universe, which anyone can discover if they will, by opening the Bible to the beginning—“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Sounds pretty clear to me.

It hasn’t changed or needed an update in thousands of years.

You can take it or leave it, but it’s still true.

I’m just thankful that He told us how it all started—and, everything else we really need to know.

I feel a whole lot better about a clear instruction manual for this thing called life, rather than yearly updated versions of a guessing game.

And that certainty is available for everybody.

Check it out yourself, before you make conclusions about anything important.