so I've been trying plenty times a week to write because Ive had so much to say but it would never happen. so I'm going to take another shot at it and post this anyways. bare with me!
At church on Sunday the pastor kind of touched base on sheltering our faith. This is huge and a lot of us don't even notice when we do it. Ok like if you were asked a question like because I'm a sinner does that mean i go to hell or who is God , why does he let certain things happen in our life. Often i see people use weasel words things that try and get them to not answer those questions that make the situation better, well the truth needs to be told! Yes i understand some times those questions are hard to answer so you don't really know what to say. . Well the good thing to do would be to not lie and sugar coat the truth that way you ' feel a lot better after answering the question' but tell them where they can find the answers ( THE BIBLE )! I know that I've been in those situations and been lost with words so i just don't say anything at all.. well that's not good ether because then you leave that person lost and mislead. I think we get embarrassed when we can't answer everything.. but really were not meant to, if we had all the answers how could we put our trust and faith in God. we couldn't. What makes the situation wrong is not the fact that you can't answer hard questions , or even that they are asked but when you think God doesn't know what your doing theres the sticky situation.
In revelations 2 it talks about the church in Thyatira when God knows the love,faith,service, patience that is there but he also knows that the Church let the woman Jezebel spread false teachings and lead them astray, She thought that it was okay and God wouldn't worry about that one time because of all of the "good" things that were done in the church. But sins that seem so small to us mean the WORLD to God and it kills him more then we know and understand. Even though we would like to make the situation better for ourselves sometimes. WE need to think about Jesus, would he ever pass up those chances of ministry because he was worried about how people would react to him? never. If we are to strive to be like Jesus that means taking Courage and not worrying about what reaction you'll get if you take a couple steps to become like Jesus.
