Many things have been changing in the last year. Birthdays, Anniversaries, the passing of loved ones, Addison starting preschool, and so much more. But lately there has been more going on in my life than I have ever paid attention to in the past. What I mean is that these things have always been present in my life and have shown themselves in different ways in the past but lately I have been paying attention and learning. Learning that God has put things, people, and places in my life for a reason and I am so much more aware of them now than I ever have been before.
THE CHANGE BEGINS HERE
I think things really started when Addison started attending a private school for preschool this past fall. She loves it there and has made great friends. And at one point I thought well maybe we will see about her going to school there verses a public school. With the benefits of smaller classes, more one on one attention and an all around better education for her. But something has become very clear to me. I am not sure if this is where she is meant to go to kindergarten. God has shown me just in the last week that the people administrators that will remain nameless are more concerned about whether or not a person is christian than whether or not they are a good person.
The first question that they ask is are you a christian? Is that really right? Does that really have a bearing on what you are like as a person? Whether you are a good person or not? Isn't it the way of a Christian person to help and accept everyone that they can regardless if they are a Christian or not? Isn't the point of their over seas mission trips to Haiti and third world countries to help those in need and to teach them about God because they have never learned or heard of the Bible? They are not placing judgment on them because they live in a third world country. But why is it OK to judge the people in our own country because maybe they are Jewish or Muslim or a Buddhist?
THE SCRIPTURE
Just as all this is being presented to me a piece of scripture was also presented to me and really makes a lot of sense.
Mathew 7:21 – 29
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and preform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like the foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teachings, the crowds were amazed at his teaching because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.
What I get from this scripture is do as I say and not just part of it or put on a face in front of people and then turn right around and place judgement on others. Do as I command and you will be a true Christian.
MY FEELING ON THE BIBLE
I am not one to read the Bible much. In fact I think that the Bible has alot of good information in it and is a guide as to the way we are all to live. But at the same time how do we know that this exactly what was said and what was done? There are so many versions and translations of the Bible and its been handed down and translated altered and edited though out history since the time it was written I have a hard time believing that it is 100% all of it.
OTHER RELIGIONS THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT YET ALL THE SAME
When I was a teenager and going through hard times with my parents and friends in school God brought me to a group of my dad's friends. Most people that don't understand would call them Hippies or weirdoos. But I know, understand and I think I always have understood that they are not weird and that Meditation, Reiki and things like reflexology are all things that God would have done through Jesus. That we has humans can do the things that Jesus did with the healing. Maybe not to such the extent that he did but healing that God does through us. Or maybe if we could find ourselves and be that connected to God we could do what Jesus did one day. (please note rekei is not a religion mearly a small piece of most all religions.)
One of the biggest flaws to me with Christianity is the not understanding Reiki or the willingness to learn where it originated and that it does belong in Christianity. It is apart of it. It is in the bible maybe not as this name but it is there none the less. Instead of placing judgement without knowing maybe we need to take the time to learn and understand. Take the time to understand that all the religons of the world have a God and believe in god but may not call it God. Regardless the name or the version of the book they follow, it is God. I wish those that place so much judgment on what they don't know would take the time to learn and understand all the religions of the world. The other thing that really gets me is that there are so many people out there that have had near death experiances have come back talked about it and written books on it and they have all said almost the same thing. There are books written about children that have come to earth multiple times in many different lives as many different people. There is even a book that a therapist has written that has had experiances with hundreds of patients who have had the spirits or angels of God come through them to deliver Gods messages. Yet for the church to believe in something like this something like reincarnation is just unacceptable. Can you even accept the fact that God's angels are here on earth guiding our lives? Helping comfort us and heal us in our time of need? Does it always have to be I need to see to believe? You belive God is there yet you say you have never seen God so does he really exist? Maybe we need to stop and listen to these messages that are being delivered in so many many ways.
Another thing that I believe is that God doesn't just create everything he is everything. He is apart of you, me. the air, the wind, the grass, the trees, the animals we see. All of it he is there. So my biggest question why do christians feel the need to be inside of a building to find him to feel closest to God? To me being inside a building is the place that I feel least connected. If you really want to feel God and his love and his power step outside into the world he created not a building we made.
PRAYER
Take the time to pray and thank him for everything that he brings into your life on a daily basis. Take the time to thank him for those silent prayers that were answered when you prayed just to him that others can't hear. Prayers are personal I have never been comfortable with or felt that a person's prayers should be spoken for others to hear. Most say that your prayers are between you and God so why not keep them that way? And why when we pray do we bow our heads? I get that we are coming to him humbally, but your prayers are to be lifted up to the heavens not down into the ground. So I say lift your prayers to the sky be humble but keep your face towards Heaven and not the ground.
I UNDERSTAND
I now can say with the recent loss of my grandmother this past February I understand why I was born into such a wonderful extended family. The loss of Grams was hard on all of us. I truely believe that our family is close so that we have each other to be ther for each other and to teach each other how to be strong for one another. The best part of this family is I can call anyone of my aunts, uncles, or cousins to cry or talk or just be with them for comfort. I thank you so much Grams for being the center of our family and the one common person that will bond us all till the day we pass away. If it wasn't for the holidays and the get togethers our family would be in pieces like so many others. I thank God everyday for allowing me to have such a wonderful family when so many others are in pieces and ruins.
ADDING UP
In the last few months things have really been adding up and all the parts here and there scattered though out my life so far have begun to make sense and piece together like a puzzle. One day the pieces of your puzzle will begin to fit together to and all that God has given you and all the people that have come in and out of your life will begin to make sense and fit together. The only thing you need to do to start seeing these messages that you get daily is to open your eyes and pay attension. When you do your life will begin to change in such a huge way.
There are so many unanswered questions that I have and sometime in God's own time my questions will be answered.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE with everything that I have written. This is just my observation of my own life. But what I do ask is that you do not judge me for what I believe and mearly accept me for the person that I am and the person that you have come to know and love. I am not claiming to be perfect and I do place my own judgement on so many people. This is one thing that I want to begin to change about myself. To accept others more and judge them less.
Thanks for reading.
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