I don't know why I chose to make that like a journal entry but I think I like it.
Ok! First Thankful Thursday entry! Soo excited! Here we go!!!...
I am Thankful for God. I am a devout Christian and therefore God is a big part of my life. He is more than a big part! He's a HUGE, MAJOR, CAN'T-LIVE-WITHOUT, HAVE-TO-HAVE part of my life! In all that I do, God is with me. He sees my pain and hears my cries; He sees my smile and gives me laughter. I go through hard times and I hate it and as a matter of fact I don't understand it, but He is there, waiting for me to realize that He has it under control and I need to stop fighting it and let him govern my life. Many people hold the question "If God is in control and doesn't like bad stuff, why does He allow bad stuff to happen?" I believe that is because if only good stuff happened, then we wouldn't see that we need to rely on Him in the hard times. We can't do anything on our own and God is there to help us through it. If God just let us have a perfect life, would we stop and think that we needed His help? I don't think so.
When I made my list of things I'm thankful for, "God" was not on it. It, to me, is a given that God is the thing I am most thankful for because I wouldn't be here--living, breathing, moving, and whatever else goes into being alive--without His decision to make me. I don't know why He made me the way I am; why He chose this exact body, face, attitude, and person overall to live on His planet, but He did and I am grateful for that. If you are not a Christian and ask "Well how do you know God exists?", then let me ask you how you know anything exists. Do you know you exist? How? Cuz you can move and breathe and do stuff? I know that I exist because God made me exist. How God made me exist? I do not know. But I don't need to know. That's the awesome part! I don't have to know the answer to every question--and I can't know the answer to every question--because God is beyond us! He knows everything! My mind can't even begin to fathom how much "everything" is. My God is so AMAZING! There are not any words that we humans have made up that can describe how great He is!
Think about this picture: The Earth spins at just the perfects speed, at the perfect angle, at a constant rate around the sun. If any of these elements were slightly different (for example, if the earth was tilted just one degree in any direction), it would not be able to sustain life of any sort. That is fascinating! What keeps it from moving? Gravity? Centripetal Force? I don't know. But then what keeps that force constant? and what keeps that force from changing? and then that force? Well I truly believe the answer is God. And then someone asks "what keeps God constant?" Nothing. God is God. We here that word and think: big human looking guy in the sky somewhere that wears white and has little naked babies with wings playing on harps. But really why does he have to look human? or wear clothes? or be a male? He doesn't have to! He probably doesn't. I don't think we can picture Him. Our minds just have to give Him an image. But He is unlike anything we can image Him to be like! That's so awesome. We don't have to know how God exists, just that He does. All of the things in life that we can't explain (like how the brain can remember things such as smells and pictures and have a voice in it) are things that He knows because he made it that way. Everything rests in His control and I don't have to worry about anything. I do worry because I'm human but I shouldn't. There are so many things that can't be explained through human ways but that's totally okay because we don't need to! Isn't it great that we don't have to figure everything out because they already are, but just not by us?! Everything can be explained through God's power. Why can the brain remember things such as smells and pictures and have a voice in it? I don't know, God thought it was a good idea. Now that is not to say we shouldn't try to figure things out--that is why God gave us brains--by all means, try your best, but when you come to a place where you simply have no idea, know that humans might not ever know, but God does.
I could go on forever about how God's will is best no matter what and how we might not understand why right now, but someday we will see that He was right, but I feel like I keep repeating myself and I need to go shower and get ready for work.
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