"And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not...for I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say..."
John 12:46-50
I realized today that I don't have to argue for God. I always knew it logically but today I really saw the truth of it with my heart. I was talking to someone and they asked me what I believed and I told them, not my words but in the words of scripture, in the words that my Father provided for me. I knew they didn't agree with everything and that didn't bother me in the least. I told them not to take my word for it, take God's word. I am here to relay His message, it doesn't matter how good I am at arguing a point because some won't see it no matter how many ways I put it. I told them to take it up with God because I know He will answer. If you seek God for what He is and not what you want Him to be He will show Himself to you. Do I know how? Nope. It's different for everyone and that is the beauty of it, friends. I don't judge those who don't believe what I believe, I am here to relay God's message in the situations and times that He appoints and then it's between them and God. I won't force anything on anyone because I don't have to and that isn't what God wants (I don't want that either). Seek God and you'll find God, it's really that simple. I sought after Him without anyone standing over me with a bible, I opened the bible and I began to read and I saw things differently before I ever decided to step into a church. I asked questions of some, others shared God's message and I shrugged it off all the while thinking "they didn't prove me wrong." Then one night when someone didn't even intend to preach to me directly, the message that they delivered cut through my logical arguments right to my heart. I knew it was God's truth because no matter how I tried to think about it it didn't change the way I felt. The people didn't prove that I was living wrong, and they weren't trying to, God did. "Those that seek me early shall find me" - Proverbs 8:17
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