Monday, October 4, 2010

Did I Stutter?

This is one of my son's favorite questions.  Have you ever wondered if God might be thinking the same thing?  If He took the time to get forty different authors, on three different continents; to write the Bible over a period of 1,500 years, could He wondering why we don't get it?   

The apostle Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 3:16 that "From childhood you have know the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation."  Even Jesus was constantly referring His listeners and the Pharisees back to the scriptures.  Are we or others expecting Him to give us a word that is superior to His written word in the Bible?  Perhaps we're searching for something easier or less demanding? 

I caught a snipped of a TV interview with some celebrity atheist the other night ragging on the Bible.   His major point of contention, was how God could sanction rape, incest, and brutality and then condemn us with the ten commandments?   He couldn't seem to wrap his mind around how the Bible could allow these atrocities and blast people for premarital sex, homosexuality, lying, and idolatry.   

It was obvious that this celebrity had not read the entire Bible as he had claimed.  How could he have missed that God called Abraham the friend of God?  Did he skip over the familiar 23rd Psalm that describes our Heavenly Father as the Good Shepard?  Did the celebrity miss the fact that God sent prophets to warn his people to turn from their sins, and often put up with their rebellious sinning for hundreds of years?   Maybe he somehow missed the fact that God the Father wanted a love walk relationship with each of us so much, that he provided His own son as a ransom for our sin and rebellion?

The longer I watched thisshow the more I realized what an ignorant actor this guy was.   Its so easy for us who understand the extraordinary gift of salvation.  We take it for granted that everyone understands God's love.  My prayer is that we will consider how blessed each of us have been, that God has put someone or several someones in our life to teach us the light of God's Word.  Let's make sure we are full of the light of His Word and then share that light with others.  

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