After a brief prayer session, I was thinking about all the things happening in the world and my heart was overridden with sadness to think about how others and even my old self, would utilize these types of egregious events happening today as proof that there is no way God could exist or that if He did, He was not loving. This dangerous deduction led me to wanting to speak with my old self and this was what came to pass.
There is an almost comedic paradox that those who by the grace of God’s just love demonstrated through free will choose to ignore or fight against His existence, will utilize examples of other people’s sinful nature allowed by that same free will as proof that He does not exist. The sovereignty of God is not something we can fully understand but through His word we are told we have choices that have consequences while also being told He has conquered death which was our greatest fear. Even though God is the arbiter of our faith, we are given the opportunity to choose to follow His commandments. If a person perpetrates a heinous act, this is not evidence of God’s lack of love or existence but rather (1) shows that humans are capable of evil (2) supports that morality exists (3) that we are in need redemption (4) we have free will. All those points are biblical truths. I am not arguing whether every tragedy has a divine purpose or does not, but rather a tragedy does not invalidate God as much as it can be argued that it does just the opposite.
Through that time of trying to write an indisputable response to my old self or others like it, I was shown remnants of my old self which I had assumed were long gone. Wisdom beyond my old thought process was given through scripture and prayer beyond what I had expected. I encourage you to ask God to highlight areas of yourself that have doubts or ask Him to challenge your current opinions with His word. This also implies that we must spend time in the bible because we have to fight our enemy and our selves with truth.
God seeks the heart of all and died for the world so we would be able to obtain salvation. We will find ourselves in positions of choice to live as God has commanded or to rebel against Him and ultimately ourselves. His mercy, love, and grace are deeper than we can imagine. We are not called to destruction but made for eternal life with Him. Do not let your heart be blinded by the battle over your mind through naturally flawed and sinfully bias human logic but allow your heart to be ravaged by what God has done for you through our lord and savior Jesus Christ, which will reveal the truth about your design in a way that will lift you above any situation and keep you content in all things. We can be free in Christ and in Christ alone.
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