I've come across way too many people lately, including myself, who want to question God's word.
Not on purpose, but just the same as the people who pick it apart word for word deciding what they will and won't believe, we still do it.
Not on purpose, but just the same as the people who pick it apart word for word deciding what they will and won't believe, we still do it.
The whole point of believing it, is that you have Faith.We believe what we cannot make sense of in our mind. We believe what you cannot see or feel. We either believe it is inspired by God or we don't.
If you don't, then it certainly doesn't mean to you what it does to someone that has faith in the Bible.
Because to that person, the questionable, in time becomes reality. But it takes faith to get there.
Perhaps to some it's a book of poetry or stories of history (true or untrue) told by men.
But to those that believe the depth therein, the depth is as simple as faith in every promise spoken. That every word spoken throughout thousands of years comes from the mind of our creator. What he did for one, he will do for us. Afterall, he is neither a liar, nor he is a respecter of persons.
We believe that because His word says it. Yes, His word...God's word.
Because to that person, the questionable, in time becomes reality. But it takes faith to get there.
Perhaps to some it's a book of poetry or stories of history (true or untrue) told by men.
But to those that believe the depth therein, the depth is as simple as faith in every promise spoken. That every word spoken throughout thousands of years comes from the mind of our creator. What he did for one, he will do for us. Afterall, he is neither a liar, nor he is a respecter of persons.
We believe that because His word says it. Yes, His word...God's word.
Trust
and faith in God and his word are both supernatural responses, if that makes sense. They don't make sense. They're not "natural" as we think of the word. It's the
opposite of what comes naturally to us. Our natural pea sized brain wants to reason, to
wonder, to question, to debate, to worry....Our natural mind wants to google whenever a circumstance or a
difficulty or something we don't understand arises. Or we want to "intellectually" justify our conclusions in which we belittle the Bible to be less than what it claims to be ~
the inspired word of God.
It's highly egotistical to place trust in our "knowledge
" or "understanding" of something, as opposed to the mind of God and even more so, the heart of God.
Repeately in scripture we are told to trust in Him. Repeatedly He reveals his heart and his thoughts in scripture, and as "believers" we claim to believe it, yet we still pick it apart. We still fight it. We debate it. We choose what we will believe. We still google it, our questions, our answers, our symptoms...before we trust Him. We find out fallen man's thoughts, fallen mans experiences and we choose to believe fallen man's words over God's.
Repeately in scripture we are told to trust in Him. Repeatedly He reveals his heart and his thoughts in scripture, and as "believers" we claim to believe it, yet we still pick it apart. We still fight it. We debate it. We choose what we will believe. We still google it, our questions, our answers, our symptoms...before we trust Him. We find out fallen man's thoughts, fallen mans experiences and we choose to believe fallen man's words over God's.
No, we would never say that, but if we are honest with ourselves, we do it all the time.
He wouldn't tell us to 'trust him' it if we were incapable of trusting Him. Fight the desire to worry. Fight the urge to google. Fight the desire to reason and compromise over his word.
Respond to life supernaturally or abnormally, whatever makes more sense to you. Which actually, as a person of 'faith', trust (the abnormal) should be a normal response.
Respond to life supernaturally or abnormally, whatever makes more sense to you. Which actually, as a person of 'faith', trust (the abnormal) should be a normal response.
Respond to life 'in faith' of Gods promises. Not faith in google's declarations.
Googles got nothing on God's promises.
As it were, I was googling symptoms the other night, I woke up and I opened my devotions to this topic.
As it were, I was googling symptoms the other night, I woke up and I opened my devotions to this topic.
We love to trust in our own understanding of things. Why? We love to find out what other people say about it. Why? But one complaint,
one word of negativity or worry can slowly spiral out of control and
can take the place of our knowledge of who God is and what He has promised us. Stop yourself
before you give yourself over to a life of question and reasoning. Stop yourself before you replace faith with questions and then questions become doubt.
Friend, remember, faith believes what it cannot see. It doesn't go to man first. It doesn't turn on the laptop first. It doesn't open the latest 'christian' book filled with man's unbelief first. It sees God first and trusts in Him alone.
But I trust in your unfailing love, my heart rejoices in your salvation.
Psalms 13:5
But I trust in your unfailing love, my heart rejoices in your salvation.
Psalms 13:5
7 comments:
Visiting from Casey's blog. Beautiful words you've written here. I love the last part right before the quote.
Very well said. I believe that God knows exactly what he was doing when he led me to click on your blog out of no where. I really needed to read this. I was just doubting & questioning lastnight. ..
Miya
Miyaloves.blogspot.com
Well said, my friend! His Word trumps ours all the time :) xoxo
LOVE this post Julie! And it's so true that it's a constant struggle (at least for me) between my own agenda and trusting in God's plan. Same goes with his following his word and having patience.
This is amazing. You have inspired me. This is exactly what I need to read and exactly what I try to tell others.
THANKS.
I needed to read this at this exact moment. Thank you Julie!
I had to banish myself from Googling symptoms a couple of years ago because of the spiral... it's definitely a struggle to choose to believe and trust God over our understanding of our experiences!
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