My God is not on a coin
or on a shelf, He is the God of this universe.
You question God - But
yet you do not question the actions of MAN
each one of us has choices in
this life - right / wrong, left / right, for / against, ETC.
whatever the
issue is. God gave us this ability. I tried to live my life on my
own terms and was a great failure. After 6 years of marriage I still did
not know how to be a husband or a man, I had nothing to stand for, I could drin
k to my hearts content and hang out with my friends but it brought NO Joy.
We were all playacting with no place to go. I thought I was happy in
the crowd but when we parted there was no happiness just hangover. My wife
had dragged me t o dif ferent churches a few times but it was the same rhetoric
I had heard as a child.
In December of 1973 my wife started attending a
Independent Baptist church, and she dragged me to this one to.
Strange people were at this church, they enjoyed being together, they had
something I hadn't seen in people who go to church. they had a Joy
(Different than Happiness) in their lives. I couldn't understand it at
first, I watched these people - were they perfect - NO but they were
different. They talked about Jesus Christ and God as if he was their best
frien d. they were a giving, loving people they were Different. I
was sitting in my favorite bar a few months later drinking my favorite beverage
(Beer) when I took a drink--- and then I couldn't swallow it. It was like
someone had pinched my thro at, it wouldn't go down, for a brief moment I didn't
know what to do. Then the thought came into my mind -"God is waiting for
you." I had a choice to make Go with God or stay in the bar. I made
the right choice I went with God.
Without this
relationship to Jesus Christ you cannot understand the things of God, We
cannot even understand the things of man without God.
God is a loving
merciful God but he also believes in justice. John 3:16 says "For God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
eve rlasting life."
God so loved us so much that he was willing to give His
son to die as a sacrifice, for your sins. God does not want anyone to
perish ( End up in Hell) he says believe in Him and have everlasting life.
Again its your choice do you want to believe in God or in man.
Romans 5:8 says "For God commendeth his love toward us in that while
we were yet sinners Christ died for you.
Read the book of John in the
Bible it has the answers you are seeking.