(This is the 50th post of janigan.blogspot.com's "It's Not So Krystal Clear". If you like what you've been reading share with a friend. I'll keep writing, even if I only have an readership of 2 people. Doesn't matter :-) )
The title: It's about all the excuses people make about why not to follow Jesus.
I found Jesus at a young age, and though I swayed from left to right while trying to get in line with Christ and made PLENTY of mistakes, I still always believed in Him and His power in our lives. When you believe and especially as strongly as I have, you get questioned a lot and people throw a lot of daggers at you. Sometimes you're told that you're flat out wrong and if you believe in something you can't see, you're crazy. Sometimes you'll have hard times in your life and when you do, people will ask "where is your God?" Well, I've seen people with pretty empty lives and I can't imagine that they are as happy on their best day as I am on my worst, because I have God and this is my comparison:
If you don't believe in a higher power you can get trapped in hard times, because you don't know how temporary this earth is. "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" ( 2 Corinthians 4: 17, 18). Earth is gonna go away, let's face it. It's stated in the Bible a ton and if you follow science, things aren't looking so great. But let's say you don't believe in the apocalypse, you're still gotta die someday. Inevitable. When you're a Christian, you prepare for this, by aligning yourself with God. You know this life isn't the end all, so when you face hard times, you don't have to worry, you know you'll make it through and even if it sucks, who cares, there'll be heaven where things never suck.
The Unsaved (and I don't mean that disrespectfully) have a lot of pressure on their shoulders. Jesus carries my burdens. But first I have to hand them over to Him. Knowing this, when I actually do hand it over to Him in good faith, I know He will take care of it. But if you don't know Christ as your savior, you're stuck trying to figure things out.
Religion is too hard, too many rules. Math is too hard too, but if you wanna be a Chiropractor you work through it right? Same thing. All the rules God made are for our own benefit. No sex before marriage- so you don't have an accidental pregnancy with a guy that can run across the country and be hard to track. No drugs- you can die from that stuff. Love your neighbors - the world would be better if everyone loved. Go to church- If you wanna follow God, it's helpful to learn more about Him in a supportive environment. It's only like three hours long, people go to the bar for longer than that. Saying following God is too hard, is like saying " I don't have will power and I don't want any", because trust me, God will give you the power if you ask.
Christians have no fun. If I'm not fun, it's because I'm a boring person, not because I'm a Christian. It's just that your perception of fun changes. Some activities you can't do anymore, but you replace them with positive ones and if your heart's in the right place, you can accept that change.
Some Christians are not good people. This goes both ways. Some Christians aren't good people and some Non-Christians aren't either. You may encounter a Christian who has not grown in a certain area and so they treat you wrong. Don't base your whole judgment of a religion and a God, based on this. You wouldn't reject a house if one out of 280 shingles was outta place on the roof.
Some non-christians fail to see how much they're loved. I've seen people put up with a lot of crap they didn't have to put up with from people, because they didn't know how much they are loved by God. I'm thinking of this from a boyfriend-girlfriend perspective. Sometimes girls have terrible boyfriends and they keep going on with the hurt and disrespect, because they don't know the worth God has put on them or the fact that God has a prince waiting for them if they would wait for him.
I could literally go on with this list for sooooo long, but I feel like people would stop reading. If I was reading, I know I would. I'm a slow reader. But I hope I inspire people to stop bull pooping themselves. Living in sin gives you an emptiness. I remember waking up after doing something crazy and wanting to cry, because I didn't know what the point of my life was. I had no purpose and I was trying to please a body made of flesh that will one day rot. No alcohol, pot, or guy could make me as happy as God has and for that I'm extremely blessed and others can be too. We all can!
The title: It's about all the excuses people make about why not to follow Jesus.
I found Jesus at a young age, and though I swayed from left to right while trying to get in line with Christ and made PLENTY of mistakes, I still always believed in Him and His power in our lives. When you believe and especially as strongly as I have, you get questioned a lot and people throw a lot of daggers at you. Sometimes you're told that you're flat out wrong and if you believe in something you can't see, you're crazy. Sometimes you'll have hard times in your life and when you do, people will ask "where is your God?" Well, I've seen people with pretty empty lives and I can't imagine that they are as happy on their best day as I am on my worst, because I have God and this is my comparison:
If you don't believe in a higher power you can get trapped in hard times, because you don't know how temporary this earth is. "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" ( 2 Corinthians 4: 17, 18). Earth is gonna go away, let's face it. It's stated in the Bible a ton and if you follow science, things aren't looking so great. But let's say you don't believe in the apocalypse, you're still gotta die someday. Inevitable. When you're a Christian, you prepare for this, by aligning yourself with God. You know this life isn't the end all, so when you face hard times, you don't have to worry, you know you'll make it through and even if it sucks, who cares, there'll be heaven where things never suck.
The Unsaved (and I don't mean that disrespectfully) have a lot of pressure on their shoulders. Jesus carries my burdens. But first I have to hand them over to Him. Knowing this, when I actually do hand it over to Him in good faith, I know He will take care of it. But if you don't know Christ as your savior, you're stuck trying to figure things out.
Religion is too hard, too many rules. Math is too hard too, but if you wanna be a Chiropractor you work through it right? Same thing. All the rules God made are for our own benefit. No sex before marriage- so you don't have an accidental pregnancy with a guy that can run across the country and be hard to track. No drugs- you can die from that stuff. Love your neighbors - the world would be better if everyone loved. Go to church- If you wanna follow God, it's helpful to learn more about Him in a supportive environment. It's only like three hours long, people go to the bar for longer than that. Saying following God is too hard, is like saying " I don't have will power and I don't want any", because trust me, God will give you the power if you ask.
Christians have no fun. If I'm not fun, it's because I'm a boring person, not because I'm a Christian. It's just that your perception of fun changes. Some activities you can't do anymore, but you replace them with positive ones and if your heart's in the right place, you can accept that change.
Some Christians are not good people. This goes both ways. Some Christians aren't good people and some Non-Christians aren't either. You may encounter a Christian who has not grown in a certain area and so they treat you wrong. Don't base your whole judgment of a religion and a God, based on this. You wouldn't reject a house if one out of 280 shingles was outta place on the roof.
Some non-christians fail to see how much they're loved. I've seen people put up with a lot of crap they didn't have to put up with from people, because they didn't know how much they are loved by God. I'm thinking of this from a boyfriend-girlfriend perspective. Sometimes girls have terrible boyfriends and they keep going on with the hurt and disrespect, because they don't know the worth God has put on them or the fact that God has a prince waiting for them if they would wait for him.
I could literally go on with this list for sooooo long, but I feel like people would stop reading. If I was reading, I know I would. I'm a slow reader. But I hope I inspire people to stop bull pooping themselves. Living in sin gives you an emptiness. I remember waking up after doing something crazy and wanting to cry, because I didn't know what the point of my life was. I had no purpose and I was trying to please a body made of flesh that will one day rot. No alcohol, pot, or guy could make me as happy as God has and for that I'm extremely blessed and others can be too. We all can!
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