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God, why do you give me struggles and doubts and the possibility to turn away from you?

Why pray for something to happen if God already has a better plan?  Maybe this is why God asks us to pray for things- because he is teaching us to think like Him.

Maybe this is why we are required to do it- to exercise our faith with every word. Why else would we do such an absurd thing, besides that we have faith. And that is one reason why we pray. 

A very powerful construction supervisor hired his brother to work for him as a manager.  His brother had MS and was curled up in his wheel chair, but he was very smart and could do the job very well. One day the handicapped brother was trying to give instructions, through his slow, slurred speech to some new employees.  These employees didn’t believe he was a manager and they just laughed and made fun of him.  The handicapped brother knew his brother’s will to finish the insulation on the first floor starting in the far corner, but these new employees thought there was a much better way of doing it and mocked his idea and laughed at him. Finally the handicapped brother squirmed and pulled out his walkie talkie and radioed this message.  “The new guys don’t believe that your instructions are the best way to do it.  They need a sign.” Fifteen minutes later a new team of insulators pulled up in a van and relieved the other team of their duties. Elijah was a man just like us.  he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for 3.5 years.  Again he prayed and the heavens gave rain…  James 5:17. Prayer can be like the walkie talkie call.  God can show his will and show His power to the world by answering a righteous man’s prayer. Raw Spoon

I was wondering how could it be fair that no one is good enough to stand in God’s presence? Even when we are doing our best to be good? But then I thought, “Well, in what situation would it seem right and fair to to keep people away from something because it is so clean?” Maybe it’s not about what is fair to me, but what is fair to it. We have a pretty me-centric perspective. And I thought about an innocent baby, very precious and perfect, asleep in perfect peace. And since we are talking of something purer than anything in this world, let’s imagine this baby is so pure that it has never needed to build an immune system to guard from infections of the world. Nobody would think it’s fair to this perfect, beautiful baby for any one of us, no matter how healthy we are now, or how fair it would be to us, to track even our dusty shoes into his presence. Much less lean over, look at, and breathe on this fragile baby. But what I think is cool about God is that although he is more pure and perfect than the newest infant in the world, he is more powerful and wiser than the strongest, and most clever humans and demons. And I think this difference ironically turns the tables of what we thought was happening. When we come before God, It is not our contaminating sin, big or small, that would infect him, but it is God’s powerful purity that pushes back on our seeping, dirty selves and threatens to obliterate us. Just like when Jesus touched the sick, defiled people and instead of it infecting Jesus, their infection was pushed back over its heels and succinctly destroyed. His purity is more powerful than our dirt. And without the pure life of Christ taking the place of what we had growing in us, after God’s purity did its work in us, there would be nothing left of us to live. So to answer our question, It would NOT be fair to put me before a perfect God. But not because I deserve more, but because I wouldn’t even have time to run for my life. Raw Spoon

Sometimes after working really hard for something and seeing no help from above, we ask, “Why won’t God Sometimes I think this is why we don’t see God appear in our stories very much.

I asked him why we would think it's okay to spread Evangelical Christian culture into African nations Why bring a new religion into a place when it will potentially cause violence and may destroy the original

It dawned on me why so much New Age philosophy promotes benevolence to each other and good will to mother

And I think maybe this is why for most of the time in it, it seems like God doesn't really say anything And I think that’s maybe why God seems kind of silent during my grief. Raw Spoon, 8-24, 2020

I used to ask myself, “Why am I a Christian?” seeing Les Miserables, on this cold, leaf-less evening in December, I thought, this movie is exactly why

I have friends and family that I want to love you, but I just don’t understand why I would tell them Yeah, that’s a ridiculously big cost, I’d say. but maybe this is why we have so many bad examples of

Genesis 1 describes how God spoke the world into being and carefully set it’s parts into motion by His word. Science has answered the question of the Earth’s origin with the Big Bang. The Big Bang, of course, is the idea that this universe started when an infinitesimal point of energy exploded into the matter that now flies outward. And it seems like the theory of the Big Bang is being constantly reinforced by science’s observations of the movements in outer space. Now, let me tell you about E=mc2, Einstein’s most famous contribution to science. It is a mass to energy conversion ratio. It basically describes that Energy can be converted to matter but the amount of energy that must be used to create a certain amount of matter is that amount of matter times the speed of light, after you square the speed of light. C is a lot. Light covers 299,792,458 meters in every second. C squared is a lot a lot. An atomic bomb is the reverse of this process. It converts a single atom back into the energy that created it. Hopefully that gives you an idea of how much energy goes into creating each atom. Okay, hold that E=mc2 in your mind and let me tell you real quick about String Theory. As I understand it, it basically explains that all the matter in the universe, and the gravity that holds it together, are described by the frequency of tiny vibrating strings (they say ‘strings’ because that is geometry we can picture). Well, do you remember how the Bible says God spoke the universe into existence by his word? Like, a vibration in the air? What if God first existed with a bunch of spiritual energy (the realm of angels and sprits might still exist in that realm of energy). And he compacted a bunch of it together so that it would become mass (remember how much energy God would have sacrificed to make each of our particles- he really cares about us!). And then he spoke into it and the huge bang of vibrations burst the whole ball apart and animated all the different strings at unique frequencies natural to each. And the different frequencies resonating through all the building blocks of matter coming together give its parts the unique characteristics we see today. That physical world filled with a whole, beautiful array of things resonating with unique beauty is what we are left with, and experience every day. I doubt any of this is exactly right, but seeing correlations with the ancient Bible and modern science brings it MORE life and gets me excited at the possibilities. Raw Spoon, 3-9-17 📷