As you read this writing and question whether or not the things I’m saying are worth while; keep reading. Though you may consider yourself an intellectual, analytical or non spiritual person; keep reading.
What if the thoughts I’m about to share with you are true, and your heart is touched; causing you to rethink your position? Wouldn’t it be good to focus on the things you’ve shrugged off as non truths or fables, and consider making some changes?
Perhaps you believe the Bible is full of fairy tales and the stories concerning miracles are only fictional exploits that were written by mindless, uneducated writers…vagabonds that took mind altering drugs or smoked marijuana to attain inspiration. Maybe you question the Sixty-Six books of the Bible, thinking they contain flawed, erroneous information; keep reading.
It’s very difficult for the natural, non spiritual mind to understand spiritual things, because they must be spiritually discerned. Such things are foolishness to carnal thinking. Without help from the supernatural realm it is impossible to grasp the depth, breadth and meaning of the workings of God. People balk at what they cannot comprehend. This generates negative thoughts about God-inspired occurrences. They refuse to believe in miracles such as the Red Sea parting that allowed the children of Israel to cross on dry ground, (Exodus 14:21-22).
Natural thinking questions the power of God. It asks, “How was it possible that three Hebrew children survived the heat of a furnace that was heated seven times hotter than normal, while the men that threw them in perished?” (Daniel 3:16-27)
Logic wonders how Jesus fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish, (Matthew -21), or that He spoke life into a man that had been dead four days, (John 11:1-44). There was also the time at a wedding in Galilee that Jesus turned water into wine, (John 2:1-11). Impossible you say? What if these miracles really happened? Could it be that you are wrong in your judgment?
With natural, everyday thinking, it is impossible to appreciate the magnificence of the unexplainable without becoming a skeptic and allowing doubt to rule one’s life. Could it be that this is the reason a natural mind generates the problem of disbelief? It takes spiritual discernment to accept and believe supernatural phenomenon.
(I Corinthians 2:14), “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Just because people believe things cannot happen a certain way does not make their philosophy correct. Reason takes a back seat to what is, when considering God and His omnipotent power. What if the things in the Bible are true?
Inasmuch as unbelievers did not witness, first hand, the miracles in the Bible, does not mean they didn’t take place. Even though they haven’t seen a virgin give birth to a child doesn’t mean it didn’t happen in Bethlehem . What if it did? What if the numerous miracles that were performed by Jesus and His disciples occurred just as the Bible said they did?
A person can take the opposite side of what is and stand with the multitudes shouting that Jesus Christ is not the divine Son of God, born of a virgin, yet with all of their shouting, truth is not canceled out. What if Jesus is the only begotten Son of God?
What if the things in the Bible are as stated, and there was a God-man who walked the earth two thousand years ago healing the sick, raising the dead, and died on a cross for the sins of mankind?
Thousands upon thousands of non-believers that speak out against the Bible fail in their attempts to make the Bible less than truthful. The outflow of their rebellion is wasted energy and futile. What if the Bible is the Word of God? Wouldn’t there be mercy and hope provided for your soul and mine?
Does it mean that Jesus was a phony, or the Bible fictional, because someone thinks a certain way? Who are they? They haven’t died, crossed over and returned to negate or vindicate the truths of the Bible. How can anyone say there is no life after death?
Jesus declared there is a hereafter. I believe Him. He told those around Him that He was going to prepare a place for them, that where He was they could be there also. He was referring to heaven, (John 14:1-3). What if this is true? Don’t you think He would have included you and me in His plan? To be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord, if we have accepted Jesus Christ into our heart, (2 Corinthians 5:8).
When people take a stand against miracles and refuse to believe in heaven or hell, does this make their stand valid? Hoping there’s no hell leaves little assurance to one’s destiny; only a lack of peace. What if there is a hell to shun and a heaven to gain? What then? Would it not be foolish to believe otherwise? Is it not reckless behavior and irresponsible suicide for one’s eternal soul to gamble that there is no hell?
What if we closed our eyes for the last time on earth; thinking that death is the final frontier with nothing following, and we open our eyes only to find ourselves in the presence of Almighty God? What then?
What if God looked through the pages of the Lamb’s Book of Life where the names of His children are written and couldn’t find your name? What then? The Bible declares in (Psalm 14:1), “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.”
What if there is a God who loved humanity so much that He gave His son as a sacrifice for the sins of the world? What if God planned everything from the beginning of time to the end when this world will be destroyed by fire? Don’t you think He would have provided a means of escape for our soul? I believe He did. His name is Jesus.
What if the so-called fairy tales in the Bible were legitimate miracles and the uneducated vagabonds were actually men of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit to record accounts that happened? Would you then believe?
Where do you think a person’s soul will end up if they insist on saying, “Bah Humbug!” to God’s Word? What if you are wrong in your natural, intellectual or analytical thinking? What if…
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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