I was going to do a different post about how my first week
back to college went, and how the first day of classes ran so smoothly. I was
going to tell how my apartment was prayed for and blessed before I even had a
chance to eat a meal inside of it. However, I had my second class of my
sophomore year this morning and as he was closing the class, he told us a
little bit of his childhood.
As he told about his childhood he explained that he grew up
in a parsonage, and that his father was the Pastor of the local Christian
church. He said that he grew up believing what his father taught, but as
science expanded and there were numerous discoveries. He said – referring to
the faith - that he “had to grow up and live in this century and not the 20th
Century.”
As I sat there I thought about what he had just said, he was
suggesting that being a Christian and serving God was not something that was 21st
century…
He talked the whole class about it being the 21st
century and that we are so technologically advanced, that even though some
people are living in this time biologically, they are still living in the past.
They refuse to use the internet and cell phones, they still watch old school
cable, and there are even the Amish (not bashing them, I love them and they are
great people, I’m just using them as an example).
When he said that, he was absolutely right! And I agreed
with him on the topic until he mentioned that the science was advancing so much
that he had to walk away from his faith. According to him, as I took it,
Christianity is not something that is in this century. Serving God is something
that is in the past because science had proven that the world had been around
for longer than the bible has stated.
I refuse to believe that, science does prove his existence.
It has to! I also refuse to believe that Jesus is “so last century.” Serving
God should be something that people are doing every day, in every aspect of
their lives. I’m sure I’ll run into arguments with him about the topic, but for
now, I just want to resolve to make serving God something that is for NOW and
not LAST CENTURY!
God has done so much in my life within the last eight
months, that it is IMPOSSIBLE that God is overrated. Maybe one day I’ll tell
him my story and everything that God has done for me. If God was something that
was in the past, why was he moving in my life and speaking to me about his
future plans for me over the summer?
“Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday today and forever.” – Hebrews 13:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning
and the End.” –Revelation 1:8 (NLT)
Quoting a part of one of my favorite spoken words, “I serve
the author of time, who is not subject to time, but I’m subject to him. He has
the ability to stop, fast-forward, pause or rewind at any given time!”
Yes, it is taken out of context, but it still describes him
in a way that is so very true, and shows that in the circle of time, God sits
outside the circle. It has no effect on him whatsoever. So to say that God is
something of the past, is wrong, He is something of the past, present and
future, and we should live our lives in a way that shows that he is still
moving and working today!
That’s it for today!
-Becca
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