mind2soul

We can find answers to some of life’s most difficult questions in the Bible. It’s simple yet so difficult, because who wants to believe the Bible?

Who wants to believe, for instance, that the devil exists? But, then again, that would explain the reason for so much pain and trouble in world we live in. That would minimize people’s frustration against God. 

I know you may be asking: “Why would God allow it?”

The Bible has the answer for this one too.  See Psalm 37:28 

For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off

According to the Bible, God has an obligation with the faithful ones and not with the unfaithful. We choose who we are.

It took us a while to know that the Earth was round in shape and not square as early expeditors thought. Yet Isaiah wrote: “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.” Isaiah 40:22

Why is it so difficult to believe? We don’t do what God asks and demand that He does what we ask! And if He doesn’t, then we just blame Him for every bad thing on earth.

I once spoke to a young man who was losing it for his drug addiction. He had already tried every possible option – rehabs, counseling, therapies, medicine, etc . He was a bright person. Very well educated. Someone who had spent his life reading books. As we sat in a church to talk I asked him why wouldn’t he try to pray. To what he answered: “Asking God for help is a sign of weakness, total failure! Asking God for help is the same as admitting that my knowledge cannot help me!”. To what what I replied: “That’s exactly it!”. He said he was sorry and that that was too difficult for him!

In my mind I thought: “But it’s so simple!”