be·lieve: verb
1. to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
As Mike and I work through the 12 Step Recovery program of Celebrate Recovery, we find our faults to be greater than just those were seeking guidance for in the beginning. I have shared that soon after attending I realized I was a Co-dependent person. I never really understood what that meant until I got in a room and started sharing my feelings. It is a hard place to be seeking attention from people that of course matter in our lives but could never fulfill the needs I had. As I work step through step I am finding that you have to earnestly believe in the healing you are calling to God for.
That's not EASY!!!
Maybe this is why so many use this opening statement when they start to speak in meetings. "Hi My name is Melissa and I am a grateful believer in Jesus Christ." Maybe it is a way to comfort ourselves in knowing that our belief is in him even when we know we are failing daily. Everyday seems to be a challenge. Sometimes the next day leads to even more challenges. We are told with God all things are possible but our flesh doesn't want to believe in those modern day miracles that Jesus preformed. So because some people don't see these things they choose not to believe. I always find it funny when people say I believe in something I am just not sure what..... I will tell you what! You believe in Jesus you just don't want to own up to the fact that the way you are living is sinful in nature. If you could only realize we are ALL full of sin and that no sin is greater than the other, then and maybe then you could try to live an abundant life. I think for many people it is selfishness. People don't want to give up their partying ways. They don't want to give up they drugs, alcohol, or whatever selfish ways they have. For others it may be that they don't want "religion" crammed down their throat. I guess I am blessed to say that I have never been this self centered. I have never left a church feeling crammed with Religion. Instead I feel filled with good feelings. Ones of trying to do better in my home life, being a better parent, being a better person in general.
I love to watch children's movies. They are so simple. They have princesses and heroes, the guy always gets the girl and their is always a happy ending. In one of my favorites (and of course the kids too) is Horton Hears a Who. The first time I heard this quote it hit me like a ton of bricks.
If you can't see, hear or feel something it doesn't exist. And believing in "tiny imaginary people" is just not something we do-(Takes her son's clover he was examining after hearing horton)-or tolerate here in the Jungle of Nool.
What if our world took away our privilege to love, worship, and praise our God. When I think about those who don't believe, I struggle to understand. It is not something that just came about God has always been here. Churches have always been around, the Bible has been here even longer than the buildings themselves. A book that has stood the test of time. I am not going to say that I have not or will not question things in the bible. I believe that is what makes us his people, the want and drive to know him better and to understand his will for our lives. When we go through life just living day to day with no purpose, with no desire to do anything but exist..... what are we here for? For those who need to see to believe, I question your theories, as you can not see what tomorrow holds. You never know what it holds. Yet you believe when you go to bed at night that you will arise the next day to go to work or school. What if tomorrow wasn't yours? What if you died while sleeping.... what impression would you have left? Would you just be put into a box with no hope for the ones who love you to ever see you again. Let's take it a step further, what if you leave this earth and you get to see all that heaven has to offer but because of your belief's you are sent to the pits of hell, wouldn't you want to warn your family? Why not now? I guess I would rather believe in something and be right than believe in nothing and live a lifetime of regret. I would rather go to sleep believing in God than wake up one morning in Hell.
For we live by believing and not by seeing.
For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
I believe in God, I believe he sent his son to die for my sins, I believe that if I follow his will that he can change my life. But I must abide in him daily and in order to do that I must first believe. I have always believed, even as a small child so why would I stop now. I know as an adult sometimes it may be harder to believe when so many give us good reasons why we shouldn't, but at the end of the day when my head hits the pillow and I pray without even thinking about it, I know I belong to him!
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