There are times, people just enjoy challenging us in terms of our faith in the Lord. Have you ever thought about why? They will be like ”oh! You Christians are just buck-passing and irresponsible group of people! You don’t know what is reality! You are so naive!” Is that all there is? Why would people say something like this? Because the way we react just don’t seem the way “normal” people we react. In stead of blaming or hating people, we choose to forgiving them, in stead of whining and being cynical to this world, we choose to see the goodness of the Lord. As a matter of fact, God knows every challenge we’ve encountered, and I believe He made it that way! Why? Because He wants us to actually apply what we have learned from Him to our daily life. Sometimes my friends are like” You talked about God all the time! You are over religious!” But I will always tells them, that’s a thing about meI am crazy about Jesus that’s why I talked about Him as my boyfriend! Religious? Religious is some thing you did out of obligation not out of love. That’s see, my mom worshiped idols like twice a day and during different occasions she prepared 3 kinds of fruits and chicken. Who made all those rules? Men did!! Why would you follow some rules made by men and served something out of fear? I choose to believe Jesus because I believe He saved me, He set me free from fear, anger and burden. When I’ve been through the worst time of my life He stretched out His hands to hold me fast. Some people might say “oh! Come on! How can you believe something you can’t see?” Obviously, I never hold His hands like physically but the encounter of the Lord being touched by the Spirit it’s so enormous that intense that you can’t never imagine. It’s the grounded Faith that us stand firm in Him. God didn’t just send us to earth to be sociable to Christians, He sent us because He needs us to bring Heaven down to earth, while the Pharisees saw Jesus was chilling with those non-believers, they were like being judgmental toward Jesus but what did He responded? “On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick . Mark 2:17” It’s out purpose to being around with the nonbeliever by the great love we’ve showed to them, they will be touched by the Holy Spirit. Being a believer it’s not selling insurance or impulse purchase and instead of inviting them to church why don’t we just be the church to those who need us? Mobilize the Bible in stead of debating with them. Remember, we may be the only Jesus people ever known. Some people might have a stereotype of Christians of being non-tolerate about other religion so they would have told you “ See? George Bush was leading a whole army to destroy the Muslim.” But you may very well tell your friend, whatever Gorge did that’s his choice, am I doing the exact same thing as he did? No! So stop comparing us as those who made wrong decisions. Speak “truth” with all your love and gentleness, you will see how they being blown away by the goodness of the Lord through you.
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