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ned:
Greetings fellow brothers and sisters!

I've been thinking about how God reveals His truths to us and wanted to share with you one of my experiences, and ask others to share theirs as well.

This experience actually happened to me while I was yet in Babylon;
I was really questioning and wondering about the purpose of preaching and witnessing to others (as my church so diligently enforced us too). If God indeed had already pre-ordained His chosen, why does He want us to witness to others?

This one day, as I prayed before I read my bible, I simply brought the question up to God, and when I opened by bible and started to read, I was brought to this verse, and it stood out as if the FONT had been bolded and doubled in size, and I was nearly floored!

Rom 9:18-19 Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth He yet find fault? For who hath resisted His will?

Verse 20 literally made my jaw drop, and humbled me before God.  Who was I to question God?
vs. 20-21
Nay but man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

God gave me His answer loud and clear! 
God doesn't always answer my questions like that, but He has given me the patience to realize that His truths will be revealed to me only when He knows I am ready for them.

In His Grace,
Marie

mongoose:
Marie,
  I've had similar experiences.  I'll be looking for the answer to a question ( :-[ sometimes searching for the answer I want to hear) and some verses just stand out and I keep finding them over and over as I scan through my bible looking for scripture.  I think it's so cool when that happens.....like this is one way that God uses to talk to us.

mongoose

SandyFla:
Marie,

Those verses were a real eye-opener for me too! I've read them many times in the past, but when God's Spirit takes away the blinders, WOW!!!  :o

One thing that used to really bother me was, I was always told that babies and young children (including those who were stillborn or aborted) go directly to heaven. That seemed very unfair, as the rest of us have to make a conscious choice of our own "free will" whether or not to "accept Jesus into our hearts." Then we had to struggle with temptation on a daily basis, and somehow be sin-free at the moment of our death. Otherwise, we would burn forever in hell.

Why did those babies and young children get a "free pass" to heaven while the rest of us poor souls have to slug it out with the enemy? And what about the "choice" that we all must make? They didn't HAVE to make a choice!

My mom would say that maybe God knew those children would grow up to reject Him, so He took them. But then, why didn't God take the rest of the majority of people who supposedly are going to hell?

Then I "saw" the Scripture you quoted and discovered God's plan to actually save the world, and it all made sense!  :)

Sandy

gmik:
Good Word.

My friends daughter died in a car accident.  She comforted herself by saying that God took her now cuz later in life she may have rejected Him.

I am amazed that "christians" don't search scripture & just regurgitates what they want to believe.

As a kid, I used to think that at the altar when we said the "5 second prayer" that the pastor should shoot us so we couldn't sin anymore.

I watched that special the other nite on National Geographic about the book of revelations.  Ugh.
How can anyone think that that is remotely literal in every way??  (Well, it wasn't so long ago that I thought that too!)

SandyFla:

--- Quote from: gmik on July 25, 2006, 01:05:57 AM ---As a kid, I used to think that at the altar when we said the "5 second prayer" that the pastor should shoot us so we couldn't sin anymore.
--- End quote ---

 :D Exactly!

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