Well Mabel and I started talking about why bad things happen to good people. One of my LEAST favorite subjects. It is so frustrating to not know why this happens, but this particular discussion lead to an even greater one outside of just Mabel's conversation. Hers led to my next reader later in the day, and then lead to a great conversation with my roomies last night.
The fact that many people, including those who call themselves christians like I do, tend to want to blame someone else for their misfortunes, faults, accidents, misgivings, etc. We tend to say ¨where is God at a time like this??¨ I hope that if I have learned anything over the few weeks Ive been here and in my life, that I have learned this- God is not at fault for our issues. Hes right there when we mess up, and the only person to blame is ourselves and mankind. We make the choice because he granted us with free will. He loved us enough to give us the power to make our own decisions and run our own lives. If you think about it, we can really do anything we want. We make break the law when we get away with it, we can lie as much as we want as long as we don´t get caught, and a mountain of other things... we can do it all. The only thing we have to remember is that God knows. He wants us to choose Him. He wants us to choose to live our lives according to how we want to please Him. I know there are probably more times in the day when I make actions to please myself than to please God. It´s pathethic the way the human race lives to please ourselves.
One of my readers started talking about Africa, and man did I get excited. For those of you who know me, this is my new recent obsession (shout out to all my friends from IC and the DLU2 team thats there right now!! Keep writing your blog... we love it over here in SA!). She went on to say how can God let the people and kids in Africa have such crummy lives and not let someone do something about it! I totally agreed with her on the fact that the situation sucks, and not enough people with power to change it seem to care. But I do disagree with her on one instance. I told her that its not Gods fault for whats going on in Africa. Its not his fault that all these children are being abducted and all these women are being raped. Its our fault for allowing it to continue. He gave us this free will, and if he just jumped in every single time we did something way wrong, it would defeat the purpose of the free will, because it wouldnt be our problems then. Its like our parents teach us when we are little, if we create a problem, we need to get ourselves out of it. Weve made this mess in not just Africa, but all over the world. Its our job to end it. So people like Analia are headed in the right direction... be active. Stay aware of whats going on in our world. HELP. But dont blame God for our problems. He gave us this ability, and we misused it and continue to do so daily. My challange for myself and for you today is to be active in the community. Look into doing something today to help tomorrow be a better day for everyone. Mankind has been blessed with many gifts. Now we must use those gifts for the greater good.
Now that I have preached for the day... I want you all to know this is almost like a journal for myself as well. The majority of these things I write about, I want to be able to remind myself how I felt when I was here and how things should be.
Thanks for reading-
Ill write again as soon as possible, but our internet in our apartment is out. Im using the churchs internet right now... woops. But I had to finish this blog so sorry about the typos or lack of punctuation. This keyboard is confusing in spanish.
MUCH LOVE
PRAY FOR OUR HEALTH
The fact that many people, including those who call themselves christians like I do, tend to want to blame someone else for their misfortunes, faults, accidents, misgivings, etc. We tend to say ¨where is God at a time like this??¨ I hope that if I have learned anything over the few weeks Ive been here and in my life, that I have learned this- God is not at fault for our issues. Hes right there when we mess up, and the only person to blame is ourselves and mankind. We make the choice because he granted us with free will. He loved us enough to give us the power to make our own decisions and run our own lives. If you think about it, we can really do anything we want. We make break the law when we get away with it, we can lie as much as we want as long as we don´t get caught, and a mountain of other things... we can do it all. The only thing we have to remember is that God knows. He wants us to choose Him. He wants us to choose to live our lives according to how we want to please Him. I know there are probably more times in the day when I make actions to please myself than to please God. It´s pathethic the way the human race lives to please ourselves.
One of my readers started talking about Africa, and man did I get excited. For those of you who know me, this is my new recent obsession (shout out to all my friends from IC and the DLU2 team thats there right now!! Keep writing your blog... we love it over here in SA!). She went on to say how can God let the people and kids in Africa have such crummy lives and not let someone do something about it! I totally agreed with her on the fact that the situation sucks, and not enough people with power to change it seem to care. But I do disagree with her on one instance. I told her that its not Gods fault for whats going on in Africa. Its not his fault that all these children are being abducted and all these women are being raped. Its our fault for allowing it to continue. He gave us this free will, and if he just jumped in every single time we did something way wrong, it would defeat the purpose of the free will, because it wouldnt be our problems then. Its like our parents teach us when we are little, if we create a problem, we need to get ourselves out of it. Weve made this mess in not just Africa, but all over the world. Its our job to end it. So people like Analia are headed in the right direction... be active. Stay aware of whats going on in our world. HELP. But dont blame God for our problems. He gave us this ability, and we misused it and continue to do so daily. My challange for myself and for you today is to be active in the community. Look into doing something today to help tomorrow be a better day for everyone. Mankind has been blessed with many gifts. Now we must use those gifts for the greater good.
Now that I have preached for the day... I want you all to know this is almost like a journal for myself as well. The majority of these things I write about, I want to be able to remind myself how I felt when I was here and how things should be.
Thanks for reading-
Ill write again as soon as possible, but our internet in our apartment is out. Im using the churchs internet right now... woops. But I had to finish this blog so sorry about the typos or lack of punctuation. This keyboard is confusing in spanish.
MUCH LOVE
PRAY FOR OUR HEALTH
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