Word for God

God is so incredible and mighty. I am so grateful to find that he has begun to move in the world and show that we are not alone and that He is not all about a set of rules. He is about love and about life. He wants to be loved and be first in our life. If we could only get beyond the arguments and the fear that the various religions have caused, as much as living in ignorance.

I feel that those who are totally ignorant of any religion are often better off than those who have been exposed to a religion or church that has a “virus” or “cavity” that is fear or pride, or one of the many of the other very real sins of the flesh, that are so easily taken up by man and make the followers of Christ look so bad to the ones we are trying to save.

I feel that pride and fear are the worst because we can smooth those over and make them look like other things that are good in our mind and use them against others. This drives people away from God and fellowship instead of bringing them closer to God.

How many of us have left the church because we were judged by the ones who were “Holier than thou”? Do you really think this was Gods plan? Of course not! That seems to me to be exactly what happened to Jesus with the Pharisees in his time.

You all know that I am not trained in theology. Anything that I give to you is from God by means of what I have read in the Bible, through the filter of the brain that He has given me, all of which is taken on the faith that began when I was but a child.

I admit that I have at times wandered away from God. I have turned my back on him and ignored him from time to time; allowed fear, pain, lust, anger, pride, despair, and greed to rule me. Those who know me well, know that even in those times when I turned my back on God, I knew and counted on the fact that he was there and waiting on me with open arms for me to return to him. I never lost my faith that He was there waiting for me. I am one of the lucky ones.
I know now that I would have lived such an easier life if I had never turned my back on God. If I had always stayed in His arms and followed his path and surrendered to his will. However, God gave me free will and when I asked to be allowed to go my own path, make my own mistakes and do my own thing. He did the one thing that every parent knows is the hardest thing in the entire universe to do for his child.

He allowed me to go; while he stood back and patiently waited for me to be ready to come back to him.

He didn’t berate me.
He didn’t use guilt treatments on me.
He didn’t yell at me.
He didn’t disown me.

He did send me reminders that he loves me
He did send his angels to watch over me
He did continue to answer my prayers when I chose to talk to him
He did send me word, when I was ready to come home, that he was waiting for me

When I came home to God,
He took me in with open arms.
He is restoring my Soul.
He continues to heal me daily.
He has forgiven me for all of my sins.
He has lead me to those who are able to help me grow closer to Him and understand the things that I have felt to be true from the time that I was a small child.

Yes, I know that was an ADD moment. However, I felt that it was important to share.

Now back to what I was saying about the cancer in the church that has caused this splintering into all these various factions, sects or denominations.

Now during the time of Jesus, He did go into the Temples (God’s house) to teach. He also taught on the mountains, in the streets, on the waters, in peoples houses, basically anywhere and everywhere he was. The Temples were close to God and were important to Jesus as God’s house because “Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.” (Mathew 21:12 NIV)

Jesus taught to the Jews, the Samaritans, the Romans, and everyone whom he came across. He did not confine his teachings to a single group and say “They have everything correct and all must follow them.” No. according to what I remember, when he was asked how can we be saved? “Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Mathew 16:24 NIV) and “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." (John 8:12 NIV) I truly believe this means that we are supposed to live our lives like Jesus did. Most of the churches today have caused more harm in those who are searching for God than good. Not all, I have come across many wonderful ministers full of the Holy Spirit and I have asked Jesus to help me remember that so much if what we find in church comes of man and man is weak.

There is a new movement where God is bringing about a revival and speaking to the open minded Souls who are open to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is bringing together people of various denominations and showing us what God really wants. He is moving among us and he is powerful.

I am going to stop for now as I am feeling drained and I am running out of things to share. When God moves me to share more I will bring some more.

In Gods love