Is it wrong to think that
Maybe the ways of God isn't as clear cut as some people seem to think?
There's your do's an your do not's.
But is that all there is?
Or is there more to God that needs to be learned?
And isn't there a learning process?
Is all he is, is do's and don'ts?
I thought that he was this almighty being, that you're suppose to believe in even if you can't see him.
Is he just a ruler that has all these rules that you must follow, isn't there more to it then just rules?
Isn't there a relationship to be made there?
Is a relationship with God, like an actual relationship that you would have with a person, and you have to learn from him?
Or is it just you have to follow the rules, cause they are there to be followed, like a commander or something?
And who exactly can I talk to about it? My mother? I've grown up with her views on God, and Religion and Church?
Do you just find God in church? OR is he with you every day?
Do you have to go to a church to really know God?
No I'm not saying going to church is a bad thing, and may be something I may look into in the future.
But can you know HIM outside of church?
If you study your bible, and talk to others about it.
Maybe even find somebody that's more knowing in the subject then you are right now, to talk to about things? Questions, thoughts, stuff you want to learn about.
I'm so lost, and have so many questions. And the one person I thought that I could talk to about it, I'm not sure I can, because we have different views on church.
Am I not a christian because I don't go to church?
God is with you every day. He isn't just in a church. In fact, just because it is a church doesn't mean that God even truly exists there. I have been in some churches where God was no where near them and evil was rampant. I went to a Christian college and God was there but so was so much evil. My grandmother was healed of cancer when she was dying and became an evangelist. I have seen miracles and my faith has been tested with situations from the depths of hell.
ReplyDeleteGod and your relationship is what you make it. I am a Christian. I don't go to church. I read the bible daily and I repent of my sins daily. I am far from perfect and my faith is always tested but I always end up learning more about my faith and my relationship with God. If something makes you uncomfortable especially in a church setting and it feels evil... Then it probably is. I have learned how to forgive and how to apologize in my religion. I have learned that just because someone says that God is with them or in a church that if I don't FEEL The goodness of God that chances are that they are full of it. I have also been given the gift of prophecy and somewhat psychic abilities. I don't usually discuss this except with about 3 people who I have proved it to. I have learned that just because I give that people will take... I have learned to say no and that it is okay to take care of me instead of trying to please everyone else. That is a hard lesson but in the process I have learned to love myself and to stand up for myself.
You can hear God and his son, Jesus if you just listen. Faith as small as a mustard seed is all it takes. You will figure it out... Just give yourself time. There are some questions that are unanswered because there are no answers.
I've been to so many churches throughout my lifetime, because of the fact, that when Mom was where I was, that's all she knew, we would go, some of them was alright, I really don't remember them all, but I remember how I felt being in a church, and I have never liked them. For a while she got out of where she had to go churches, and then we started going to a big Bible study with large groups of people, but eventually, we quit going to that. God, has been in my life, since I was little, he's always been there, and I truly believe, (although I don't talk about it much, cause every time I do I feel like I sound full of myself, an that's not how its meant to come off). That if it wasn't for God, I probably wouldn't be walking, or doing a lot of the things that I actually do. My faith, has been through hell and back, many times over, and I lost it for a few years. But with recent things going on in my life, I found that, I need to get back to God, I need to attempt to have a relationship with him. I don't know how to do it, but I want to try.
ReplyDeletePeople saying that they have God, people going every Sunday to church in my own life I'm starting to see, it isn't always the way people want you to see. But I believe one day, that they are going to go through something that may (I pray to God) open their eyes. Forgiveness should be easy, but it is also something that I am struggling with, one day hopefully it's to late, I'll get it right. There are a few people that I am sure question my faith, the fact that I even believe, because it seems so new. And in time, maybe they will see the truth to that to.
Well you don't have to prove to me that you have it, I truly believe that you do. Yeah I am sure that people do, maybe some day I'll learn the balance, between giving, and people taking. That's a process to I think. I understand the do's and don'ts but I still Religion, and churches may be as clear cut as some say, but I don't think that God is, I think there is a lot more to them, then most people ever know. And I'm sure that getting my faith to grow, isn't going to be easy. But somehow someway through the test's and learning I may figure it out, especially since I have this great and wonderful person beside me helping along the way. :)
I'm trying to take care of me, and everybody around me, cause that's what I know, take care of people around me... I ain't exactly figured out the take care of me part of it, I always seem to fail that somehow. May be in time?
I've been praying a lot, and talking to God. I feel him around me and in me, but it's still silent, I ain't heard him yet. I know that he is quiet, when we're going through a test, but if this is, what is the test? Maybe I need to go back, and try things differently.
Sometimes it takes years to figure out why and what the test and lessons of a test are. I don't believe you need a church to be close to God. Don't allow people to bully or guilt you into thinking that you aren't religious or close to God. There are a lot of people who believe they are right in their beliefs and behavior and they are closer to evil than God.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you.. maybe one day if it's right, I'll find a church. I just don't feel like that's what I need to be doing right now. And I'll try not to.
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