The Wonder of This World. The Wonder of Choice.

The past couple of weeks have been rough. I've been dealing with the extreme fatigue again and it was so very depressing. A bright spot was when I was doing my Bible study and one thought kept coming to me about God's awesome power: What an amazing world we live in and what amazing creatures we are.

I don't believe that I'm being arrogant or stubborn when I say that I truly cannot understand how anyone can not believe in God.

Louie Armstrong may or may not have felt the way that I do, but his song expresses my wonder:

1. (What a) Wonderful World

   Song by Louis Armstrong
2. I see trees of green, red roses, too,
   I see them bloom, for me and you
   And I think to myself
   What a wonderful world.

   I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
   The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
   And I think to myself
   What a wonderful world.

   The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,
   Are also on the faces of people going by.
   I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
   They're really sayin', "I love you."

   I hear babies cryin'. I watch them grow.
   They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
   And I think to myself
   What a wonderful world

   Yes, I think to myself
   What a wonderful world

Truly so.

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Part of my current Bible study is on the difference in the words used for "creating" and "making" something. Only God can create (make something new, created from nothing), while humans are capable of making things (from something that is already created).

There has to be a wanting to disbelieve on the part of anyone who refuses to look at at least that one fact when they question the existence of God.

Not only did God create, but He did so with such perfection and order.

We humans are not only amazing specimens, but there is such meticulous and complex order to what we are.

The reason I started doing this Bible Study was just to get more into the Word. The more I do get into reading and really looking deeply at the Scriptures, the more awed I am.

That there are people who refuse to acknowledge the God of the Bible is further (unnecessary) proof to me of His existence. After all, man is only capable of rebelling because God gave us free will.

In all our human intelligence and accomplishments we forget something when we talk about being "randomly" just here: Our bodies, brains, and souls were not randomly created. If we came out of all the chaos that is, Who brought order to that chaos?

If man is greater than God, then let man create something using anything but what already exists. It doesn't have to be anything special - just come up with a color made not using colors that exist.

It takes so much more faith to believe in randomness than it does to believe in order and purpose.

A popular saying used to go like this: "Happiness is a choice". That is true, but most people who wore those t-shirts and displayed the posters were being flip and now-minded.

There are more eternal truths that a lot of people don't think about (or even want to think about). I doubt that I'll ever see many t-shirts or posters proclaiming those more important truths:

• Unbelief is a choice. 
• Unrepentant Sin is a choice. 
• Repentance is a choice. 

Those are important because, unfortunately, living forever as we are is not a choice. All of us are going to see the end of this life and not enough of us are considering what that is going to mean for each one of us.

We can choose to be arrogant. lazy, careless, stubborn or defiant. All those "paths" lead straight to Hell. Or we can be humble and submit to God, asking for forgiveness through the blood of Jesus. That's the only way to peaceful eternity. It takes nothing to be humble except to stop being full of pride.

I'm praying for those who still don't acknowledge God's existence. I'm praying to those who believe in His existence but don't acknowledge Him and His eternal authority. But all I can do is pray. 

My mother used to say to me "I can take you to church, but I can't take you to Heaven. We all are going to walk into eternity on our own."

Peace

--Free