I am glad that no matter what’s happening, God already knows. Several times this week I have heard the verse, “I am the same, yesterday, today, forever.” I know some people, who don’t believe in final judgment. And others who seem to doubt eternal security. I go with the belief that the Bible doesn’t contradict itself. I believe the Bible. If the Bible says there’s death or eternal life, than I believe that. If you have eternal life than how can you ever loose it? As for the other, judgement. That doesn’t seem to hard to believe. I like John 3:18, “He that believeth is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.” I know it’s a mouth full, but the idea that we are NOT sentenced, punished, because we have believed. It’s Paul’s whole talk about the law being dead. Because we received grace, we don’t have to do anything to earn God’s forgiveness. That doesn’t mean we can’t do wrong and need to make it right. It means that our failure to be perfect on our own doesn’t matter. I Corinthians 15:19 says, “ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are men most miserable.” If that’s all there is. And yes that means some people will suffer. Not because God is awful, but because they refused to listen. Even in a last moment like that man who called out to Jesus as the hung on crosses. He was saved from his sin only moments before it was too late. So I think God’s mercy is a lot wider than people realize.
As a kid I watched my parents fight about different things. I don't really have any other parents to compare them to so I can't really say whether they were normal fights couples have or not. I couldn't even say what most of them were about except the ones that were about me. We only ate as a family on holidays. My father came home late so we kids ate without him. I do remember spending time with him in the evening before I went to bed so it couldn't have been that late. My own husband gets home a little later because of his job commute so we eat late every night. But home schooling has given us the ability to be more flexible than my Mom was able to be. We had school early the next day. As I got older, I remember my Father being home less and less and the fights seemed to intensify. I remember one night when I was thirteen. I could hear them yelling through the wall. My mom found me crying and I told her I didn't want them to get a divorce. She told me...
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