At some point in our lives, someone probably tells us that we should give our heart to Jesus or God. For some that is repeating a sinner's prayer, for some it is being baptized. Regardless, for those who truly want to follow Jesus, at some point, we tell Him that we are giving Him our heart, our mind, our soul, and our life. We ask Him to be our Lord and Savior, to forgive us for our sins, and to heal our wounded spirits.
Often I have thought of this gesture of giving my heart over to God as some kind of noble act where I hand him this beautiful beating heart, entrusting Him to take better care of it than me or anyone else. But the older I get, the more I realize the gesture looks more clumsy than noble and the heart looks anything but beautiful.
I imagine as I pull this beating bloody heart out of my chest that it's not bright, but dark, not red, but black, not healthy, but sick, not strong, but weak. It is badly bruised, for it has taken a lot of beating. It has scrapes and cuts and those wounds have become infected and are blistering and oozing with disease. Even worse, there are pieces of shrapnel filling the heart.
The heart is dying when we painfully rip open our chest to give it to Jesus. We are giving Him a precious gift, but a gift no one would ever want. No one, that is, but the lover of our soul who gave us life and seeks so desperately to redeem us. No surgeon on earth could heal our war weary heart. Only the Great Physician with His special, healing touch can do that.
But here's the thing, He doesn't heal it all at once. He heals it as we open ourselves up to be healed. Each piece of shrapnel has a painful memory attached. Maybe that piece is attached to the memory of someone who bullied you as a child. Maybe that piece is attached to the memory of a teacher who treated you unfairly. Maybe that piece is attached to an abusive relationship. Maybe that piece is attached to the memory of someone you treated badly.
When Jesus goes to remove each piece of shrapnel, that memory is going to come up. And with each painful memory, He forces us to face it. We then have the choice, to surrender it to the Great Physician and experience the pain until the shrapnel is gone and the wound healed and we come out of it with our heart more healed and a stronger, healthier person, or we can tell Him no, and resist His attempts to remove the shrapnel. But as long as it remains, it poisons our very soul.
Even after we give Him our heart, it is possible for us to grab it back and allow more wounds to hurt it. We do not give our heart to Jesus just once, but continually as we realize we have taken it back and that we need to give it to Him again if we are to be healed.
Even if we live a long life, our heart may never be fully healed. Full healing will not come until we trade our mortal flesh for immortal. As long as we are alive on this earth, as followers of Christ, we must always be handing our wounded, shrapnel filled, dirty heart to Jesus, the only one who can heal the wounds this world inflicts upon it.
It may not look beautiful, but it is. It is a beautiful mess of God's redeeming love at work in our messy lives, and it is beautiful.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
I will sacrifice praise, thanksgiving, and joy.
For the past couple years, I have thought about, and been extremely skeptical, of the following worship song from my childhood:
We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord
We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord
And we offer up to You, the sacrifices of thanksgiving
And we offer up to You, the sacrifices of joy
I have been skeptical because I don't see praise, joy, and thanksgiving as things needing to be sacrificed and thought it seemed like a pretty lame thing for us to say we offer as sacrifices. A sacrifice, after all, is something that hurts us in some way to give.
But then I read a chapter in a book that talked about this, and now I get it!
When life is hard and we are inclined to grumble, gripe, complain, pout, get angry, etc., that is when these become sacrifices.
When I am in the midst of a struggle, it is then that I must offer these sacrifices. Look at the situation I am in and tell God, "I am thankful for..." and "I am joyful because..." and "I praise you for..."
For example, I recently was feeling grumpy during a time of praise and worship singing because several people behind me were talking loudly and it was distracting. In that moment, my sacrifice should have been to thank God that these people had come and would get to hear about Him, to be joyful because of the opportunity I had to be there to sing praises, and to praise Him for providing good worship music.
That seems like a minor thing in comparison to many things that plague us in life, but I use it as a simple example. In some of our darkest experiences, we can thank God that our faith will be tested and strengthened by what we are going through and praise Him because even if the worst things happen to us - we fail, we lose our jobs, we lose our health, we lose everything - we can praise Him that we know He loves us and that all things work together for our good because we love Him.
I plan to put this into practice more. That when I feel tempted to grumble, gripe, complain, sulk, etc., that instead I will think of the positives that I can then bring before God as a sacrifice of praise, a sacrifice of joy, and a sacrifice of thanksgiving. God is good and He loves us. We are more important than the sparrows whom He always provides for.
We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord
We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord
And we offer up to You, the sacrifices of thanksgiving
And we offer up to You, the sacrifices of joy
I have been skeptical because I don't see praise, joy, and thanksgiving as things needing to be sacrificed and thought it seemed like a pretty lame thing for us to say we offer as sacrifices. A sacrifice, after all, is something that hurts us in some way to give.
But then I read a chapter in a book that talked about this, and now I get it!
When life is hard and we are inclined to grumble, gripe, complain, pout, get angry, etc., that is when these become sacrifices.
When I am in the midst of a struggle, it is then that I must offer these sacrifices. Look at the situation I am in and tell God, "I am thankful for..." and "I am joyful because..." and "I praise you for..."
For example, I recently was feeling grumpy during a time of praise and worship singing because several people behind me were talking loudly and it was distracting. In that moment, my sacrifice should have been to thank God that these people had come and would get to hear about Him, to be joyful because of the opportunity I had to be there to sing praises, and to praise Him for providing good worship music.
That seems like a minor thing in comparison to many things that plague us in life, but I use it as a simple example. In some of our darkest experiences, we can thank God that our faith will be tested and strengthened by what we are going through and praise Him because even if the worst things happen to us - we fail, we lose our jobs, we lose our health, we lose everything - we can praise Him that we know He loves us and that all things work together for our good because we love Him.
I plan to put this into practice more. That when I feel tempted to grumble, gripe, complain, sulk, etc., that instead I will think of the positives that I can then bring before God as a sacrifice of praise, a sacrifice of joy, and a sacrifice of thanksgiving. God is good and He loves us. We are more important than the sparrows whom He always provides for.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Mental illness and Jesus
So I've been seeing a lot of posts about depression and suicide since the death of Robin Williams.
It's got me thinking about mental illness and the church, or more importantly, mental illness and Jesus.
The Bible says it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. The Bible says Jesus went to the lowest in society, the outcasts, the sick, the unclean, the sinners, and loved them. Jesus said that in this world, we would have trouble.
We know for a fact that Jesus does not heal every person who accepts Him and is saved. Christians still die of cancer, heart attacks and a variety of diseases. Christians live with paralysis and a variety of diseases as well and are never healed.
But what about the mind?
I have heard Christians say that a Christian should not suffer from any kind of mental illness because since it's mental, that should be able to be easily healed by Jesus, that Christians should not take medication for mental illness, that if a Christian continues to suffer from mental illness, it's because they lack faith. (Okay, some claim that for physical ailments as well.)
Any honest Christian will say that even after accepting Christ in our lives, we struggle with sin. We will until the day we die or Jesus comes back and takes us home. Sin can be sneaky and affect how we think without realizing it, or it can be bold and obvious and tempt us to do things we know are wrong.
Paul wrote in detail about his struggle with sin, writing that the good he wanted to do, he did not do, but the evil he did not want to do, that he kept on doing. He also talked about having a thorn in his side that he pleaded with God to remove, but God would not, saying His grace was sufficient for Paul. The thorn could have been temptation. Perhaps it was an illness. Perhaps it was mental illness. We really don't know, Paul never elaborated what this "thorn" was for him.
But going back to Jesus going to the worst in society. It stands to reason that people with mental illness are going to be drawn to Jesus because Jesus runs to people who are suffering. And knowing that accepting Jesus is not a ticket to healing in this world, it stands to reason that people who suffer from mental illness who accept Jesus will still suffer after accepting Jesus. They are not hated or despise by God for lack of faith or sin in their lives. It may simply be their thorn that God allows in their life to remind them His grace is sufficient.
And Christians who do not suffer from mental illness should take on the mindset of Jesus and love and serve those who suffer, especially in the body of Christ, without passing judgment on them. We are all weak and in need of grace. And like the song says, "Everyone needs compassion."
It's got me thinking about mental illness and the church, or more importantly, mental illness and Jesus.
The Bible says it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. The Bible says Jesus went to the lowest in society, the outcasts, the sick, the unclean, the sinners, and loved them. Jesus said that in this world, we would have trouble.
We know for a fact that Jesus does not heal every person who accepts Him and is saved. Christians still die of cancer, heart attacks and a variety of diseases. Christians live with paralysis and a variety of diseases as well and are never healed.
But what about the mind?
I have heard Christians say that a Christian should not suffer from any kind of mental illness because since it's mental, that should be able to be easily healed by Jesus, that Christians should not take medication for mental illness, that if a Christian continues to suffer from mental illness, it's because they lack faith. (Okay, some claim that for physical ailments as well.)
Any honest Christian will say that even after accepting Christ in our lives, we struggle with sin. We will until the day we die or Jesus comes back and takes us home. Sin can be sneaky and affect how we think without realizing it, or it can be bold and obvious and tempt us to do things we know are wrong.
Paul wrote in detail about his struggle with sin, writing that the good he wanted to do, he did not do, but the evil he did not want to do, that he kept on doing. He also talked about having a thorn in his side that he pleaded with God to remove, but God would not, saying His grace was sufficient for Paul. The thorn could have been temptation. Perhaps it was an illness. Perhaps it was mental illness. We really don't know, Paul never elaborated what this "thorn" was for him.
But going back to Jesus going to the worst in society. It stands to reason that people with mental illness are going to be drawn to Jesus because Jesus runs to people who are suffering. And knowing that accepting Jesus is not a ticket to healing in this world, it stands to reason that people who suffer from mental illness who accept Jesus will still suffer after accepting Jesus. They are not hated or despise by God for lack of faith or sin in their lives. It may simply be their thorn that God allows in their life to remind them His grace is sufficient.
And Christians who do not suffer from mental illness should take on the mindset of Jesus and love and serve those who suffer, especially in the body of Christ, without passing judgment on them. We are all weak and in need of grace. And like the song says, "Everyone needs compassion."
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Vulnerability
I gave my life to Christ when I was 12. I saw adult Christian leaders as people who had things together. They seemed perfect, like they didn't struggle with sin, and I assumed that by becoming a Christian, I would be the same way when I grew up.
As an adult, I continued to see Christians who acted like they had no personal struggles and they were perfect. All my life I have strived for that perfection and never felt it and this has led me many times to question my relationship with God. Does He really love me if I struggle, because it seems other Christians don't struggle.
I think as Christians we often have the misguided idea that maturity equates perfection and that we don't struggle. I think more, we are either not honest about our struggles or we choose to hide them from others and thus put off this persona of being perfect.
But the Bible tells us to confess our sins to one another.
Why? Why should we confess our sins to one another? This question was asked in our small groups at CIY and my answer is this - because when we confess our sins to one another, it encourages others to know they are not alone in their struggles and if we confess our sins, we can hold each other accountable. Temptation can lose its hold on us when we hold one another accountable. I think God desires us to be vulnerable, not act perfect. When we are vulnerable, He can use us.
I am not perfect. I have PTSD, I struggle constantly with self-worth, I'm always afraid I'm disappointing God, I feel I deserve punishment more than grace, but through the grace of God, He has brought people into my life who are honest and vulnerable, who remind me that God sees me of great worth, that He sees me as His little child whom He cherishes, and thankfully I grew up with a great dad that I can understand that kind of love. I need encouragement daily and God knew I would. That's why He says in the Bible to encourage each other daily, as long as it's called today, so that sin does not gain a foothold.
We need to be honest with each other. We need to be vulnerable. We need to encourage each other that we understand sin, understand pain, understand the struggle between our sinful nature and the new creation Christ is making us to be.
As an adult, I continued to see Christians who acted like they had no personal struggles and they were perfect. All my life I have strived for that perfection and never felt it and this has led me many times to question my relationship with God. Does He really love me if I struggle, because it seems other Christians don't struggle.
I think as Christians we often have the misguided idea that maturity equates perfection and that we don't struggle. I think more, we are either not honest about our struggles or we choose to hide them from others and thus put off this persona of being perfect.
But the Bible tells us to confess our sins to one another.
Why? Why should we confess our sins to one another? This question was asked in our small groups at CIY and my answer is this - because when we confess our sins to one another, it encourages others to know they are not alone in their struggles and if we confess our sins, we can hold each other accountable. Temptation can lose its hold on us when we hold one another accountable. I think God desires us to be vulnerable, not act perfect. When we are vulnerable, He can use us.
I am not perfect. I have PTSD, I struggle constantly with self-worth, I'm always afraid I'm disappointing God, I feel I deserve punishment more than grace, but through the grace of God, He has brought people into my life who are honest and vulnerable, who remind me that God sees me of great worth, that He sees me as His little child whom He cherishes, and thankfully I grew up with a great dad that I can understand that kind of love. I need encouragement daily and God knew I would. That's why He says in the Bible to encourage each other daily, as long as it's called today, so that sin does not gain a foothold.
We need to be honest with each other. We need to be vulnerable. We need to encourage each other that we understand sin, understand pain, understand the struggle between our sinful nature and the new creation Christ is making us to be.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Holiness
Holiness is a word I think about a lot. I didn't think about it much when I was younger, primarily because I didn't understand the word other than it was associated with God. But the word simply means to be set apart. As Christians, we are to be holy as God is holy, we are to be set apart like Jesus was set apart.
A number of years ago, bracelets with the letters WWJD were very popular. It stood for "What Would Jesus Do?" The bracelet was a reminder to ask that question in a variety of circumstances. However, a question I like better is, "Is it holy?" Will my choice set me apart and make me more like Christ, or does my choice make me seem more like the world?
The Bible does not condemn the consumption of alcohol, after all Jesus made water into wine, but is it holy to party it up at a bar? Does doing this activity make you look more like Christ or more like the world? I have seen Christians in bars who look a lot more like the lost the saved.
The Bible tells us that there should not be even a hint of sexual immorality among us. So do we avoid cohabitation with members of the opposite sex while we're still single or do we live together like the world does? The world does not question single men and women living together, but they may notice your stand to not do that because you want to avoid even the hint of sexual immorality.
The Bible does not condemn smoking, but we know smoking is unhealthy. Do we choose to honor our bodies as God's temple?
When we are around people who cuss and swear, do we cuss and swear too or do we set ourselves apart in our language?
When we are around people who are gossiping, do we take part or do we refrain and set ourselves apart and choose to love those who are being talked about?
When we see the person no one wants to be around sitting by themselves, do we leave our group of friends to be a friend to the friendless at the risk of our own reputation because that is what Jesus would do and did do?
These are just some of the things I think about when it comes to holiness.
A number of years ago, bracelets with the letters WWJD were very popular. It stood for "What Would Jesus Do?" The bracelet was a reminder to ask that question in a variety of circumstances. However, a question I like better is, "Is it holy?" Will my choice set me apart and make me more like Christ, or does my choice make me seem more like the world?
The Bible does not condemn the consumption of alcohol, after all Jesus made water into wine, but is it holy to party it up at a bar? Does doing this activity make you look more like Christ or more like the world? I have seen Christians in bars who look a lot more like the lost the saved.
The Bible tells us that there should not be even a hint of sexual immorality among us. So do we avoid cohabitation with members of the opposite sex while we're still single or do we live together like the world does? The world does not question single men and women living together, but they may notice your stand to not do that because you want to avoid even the hint of sexual immorality.
The Bible does not condemn smoking, but we know smoking is unhealthy. Do we choose to honor our bodies as God's temple?
When we are around people who cuss and swear, do we cuss and swear too or do we set ourselves apart in our language?
When we are around people who are gossiping, do we take part or do we refrain and set ourselves apart and choose to love those who are being talked about?
When we see the person no one wants to be around sitting by themselves, do we leave our group of friends to be a friend to the friendless at the risk of our own reputation because that is what Jesus would do and did do?
These are just some of the things I think about when it comes to holiness.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Can't let God down
So I posted this video on my Facebook page last night and I woke up this morning thinking about it. In fact, I've been thinking about it all day.
It's a Christian skit put on by two guys, but the skit kind of hit me between the eyes. In the skit, which I will post below, one guy represents God who shows up with a hammer and chisel to chisel out the things in the other guy's life that don't belong.
Several things in the video made me think, but the one that was such an eye opener for me was when the guy told God that he had let him down so many times. God's response? "No, you were never holding me up. I hold you up with my victorious righteous right hand and don't you forget that. In this relationship, I hold you up."
I have often struggled with feeling how much I've let God down and how disappointed He must be in me. So when I heard that in this skit, it just hit me hard. I don't hold God up, so I can't let God down. God holds me up, so He can let me down, but He is perfect and therefore won't let me down. I may think He has let me down because I may put unrealistic expectations on Him, but for what He has promised, He will never let me down.
Furthermore, God knows my future. He has no expectations that I can let Him down in because He knows what I'm going to do before I do it. It is impossible to let God down because He has no unrealistic expectations. He has no need for expectations in His infinite knowledge of us. He knows the mistakes I'm going to make before I make them. When I make them, I'm not letting Him down. Rather, He's holding me in His hand, ready to chisel, to discipline me, not in anger for my making mistakes, but in love for wanting to help me, like a father would love His naive child.
I think expectations are a human invention. I think we all have them and we place them on others without them realizing it and we become disappointed when others don't do what we expect them to do. So I think we should strive to live without expectations - of others and of ourselves. We should live each day striving to live as the Bible commands, and when we mess up, to realize we haven't let God down, because He is holding us up and nothing is a surprise to Him. In fact, He accepted us when we first made a commitment to Him knowing all the mistakes, all the sins we would commit for the rest of our live as His children, and still has chosen to accept us with that knowledge. We cannot let God down, we need only surrender to His love and discipline for our lives.
It's a Christian skit put on by two guys, but the skit kind of hit me between the eyes. In the skit, which I will post below, one guy represents God who shows up with a hammer and chisel to chisel out the things in the other guy's life that don't belong.
Several things in the video made me think, but the one that was such an eye opener for me was when the guy told God that he had let him down so many times. God's response? "No, you were never holding me up. I hold you up with my victorious righteous right hand and don't you forget that. In this relationship, I hold you up."
I have often struggled with feeling how much I've let God down and how disappointed He must be in me. So when I heard that in this skit, it just hit me hard. I don't hold God up, so I can't let God down. God holds me up, so He can let me down, but He is perfect and therefore won't let me down. I may think He has let me down because I may put unrealistic expectations on Him, but for what He has promised, He will never let me down.
Furthermore, God knows my future. He has no expectations that I can let Him down in because He knows what I'm going to do before I do it. It is impossible to let God down because He has no unrealistic expectations. He has no need for expectations in His infinite knowledge of us. He knows the mistakes I'm going to make before I make them. When I make them, I'm not letting Him down. Rather, He's holding me in His hand, ready to chisel, to discipline me, not in anger for my making mistakes, but in love for wanting to help me, like a father would love His naive child.
I think expectations are a human invention. I think we all have them and we place them on others without them realizing it and we become disappointed when others don't do what we expect them to do. So I think we should strive to live without expectations - of others and of ourselves. We should live each day striving to live as the Bible commands, and when we mess up, to realize we haven't let God down, because He is holding us up and nothing is a surprise to Him. In fact, He accepted us when we first made a commitment to Him knowing all the mistakes, all the sins we would commit for the rest of our live as His children, and still has chosen to accept us with that knowledge. We cannot let God down, we need only surrender to His love and discipline for our lives.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Creation
Watched a video about creation tonight with high school students. I have heard a lot on this topic in my lifetime. I remember hearing about it when I was in high school, when I was in college, and as an adult. I don't jump into debates about it for debate sake, just like I don't jump into debates really about anything for debate sake. However, I do feel strongly about it and so here are some of my thoughts on creation...
1. God created everything in one six literal days and we understand days and rested on one literal day. In Genesis, it clearly states there was morning and there was evening one day. This was not a "figurative" day meaning millions of years. One morning, one evening, one day. Pretty clear. God says it very plainly for us to understand. If you don't want to believe that, then you open the entire Bible for man's interpretation and take away from the authority of scripture.
2. Evolutionists have the same evidence as those who believe in creation. They simply come up with different theories on how the evidence came to be. They try to argue that their methods are "truth," but they're just theories. Because unless you have a person who lived millions of years ago to verify their theory, it's not proven, it's an unprovable theory. However, with the Bible, we have someone who did exist when everything came into being and has told us about it. So, do we want to believe fallible, flawed human beings living today trying to tell us how the universe came to be, or do we want to believe the perfect creator who said He made everything and how He did it?
3. A lot of belief of evolution comes from people who do not want to believe God or a being higher than themselves who has more power and control. They want to believe that they have power over their own destiny and they don't like the idea of going to hell if they don't accept Jesus, but instead of surrender to Jesus, they try to come up with theories to believe instead of Him. Thus any belief of creation proclaiming Jesus is a threat to their false security. I had an anthropology professor once say to the class on the first day that not all questions are equal and he did not want to hear any questions challenging his position on evolution.
Isn't it interesting how threatened evolutionists feel by creationism? I do not feel threatened by evolution at all. Rather, I know what I believe regarding it and will defend my beliefs if ever challenged. (apologetics)
Bottom line...
1. What is more comforting to believe in? That we are cosmic accidents without a soul and when we did, there is nothing or that a all-powerful God created us out of love and died to save us because He loves us and wants to spend eternity with us where we will never die and there will be no more crime, pain, suffering, sickness, death, etc...?
2. Consider the miracles we see in the Bible after creation. Why is it so hard to believe God could create everything in six literal days? I am in awe of His power and might and majesty. He could create all this in six days, it humbles me into understanding how small I am in comparison to Him and His greatness. It reminds me of how worthy He is to be praised and adored. And shouldn't that be the point? All that God has done, all that He created, His infinite imagination and ability to breathe life from nothing, how dishonoring for us to try and say He is not that powerful and mighty. Why do we want to make God little? I for one want to believe in a God big enough to create a universe in six days, a God who is not the devil's equal so He can squash the devil like a bug at any time He wants, a God who has the power to end all my troubles, wipe all my tears, give me a new immortal body immune to the disease of sin, and love me with a neverending perfect love.
My God is bigger than man's attempt to diminish His power and abilities.
1. God created everything in one six literal days and we understand days and rested on one literal day. In Genesis, it clearly states there was morning and there was evening one day. This was not a "figurative" day meaning millions of years. One morning, one evening, one day. Pretty clear. God says it very plainly for us to understand. If you don't want to believe that, then you open the entire Bible for man's interpretation and take away from the authority of scripture.
2. Evolutionists have the same evidence as those who believe in creation. They simply come up with different theories on how the evidence came to be. They try to argue that their methods are "truth," but they're just theories. Because unless you have a person who lived millions of years ago to verify their theory, it's not proven, it's an unprovable theory. However, with the Bible, we have someone who did exist when everything came into being and has told us about it. So, do we want to believe fallible, flawed human beings living today trying to tell us how the universe came to be, or do we want to believe the perfect creator who said He made everything and how He did it?
3. A lot of belief of evolution comes from people who do not want to believe God or a being higher than themselves who has more power and control. They want to believe that they have power over their own destiny and they don't like the idea of going to hell if they don't accept Jesus, but instead of surrender to Jesus, they try to come up with theories to believe instead of Him. Thus any belief of creation proclaiming Jesus is a threat to their false security. I had an anthropology professor once say to the class on the first day that not all questions are equal and he did not want to hear any questions challenging his position on evolution.
Isn't it interesting how threatened evolutionists feel by creationism? I do not feel threatened by evolution at all. Rather, I know what I believe regarding it and will defend my beliefs if ever challenged. (apologetics)
Bottom line...
1. What is more comforting to believe in? That we are cosmic accidents without a soul and when we did, there is nothing or that a all-powerful God created us out of love and died to save us because He loves us and wants to spend eternity with us where we will never die and there will be no more crime, pain, suffering, sickness, death, etc...?
2. Consider the miracles we see in the Bible after creation. Why is it so hard to believe God could create everything in six literal days? I am in awe of His power and might and majesty. He could create all this in six days, it humbles me into understanding how small I am in comparison to Him and His greatness. It reminds me of how worthy He is to be praised and adored. And shouldn't that be the point? All that God has done, all that He created, His infinite imagination and ability to breathe life from nothing, how dishonoring for us to try and say He is not that powerful and mighty. Why do we want to make God little? I for one want to believe in a God big enough to create a universe in six days, a God who is not the devil's equal so He can squash the devil like a bug at any time He wants, a God who has the power to end all my troubles, wipe all my tears, give me a new immortal body immune to the disease of sin, and love me with a neverending perfect love.
My God is bigger than man's attempt to diminish His power and abilities.
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