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We are living in a world where time pass us by without us noticing it. We rush in the morning to get the kids to school and to get to work on time. We rush at work and then go home tired, just to rush again to cook and get the kids to bed. Weekends are a social rush to get friends and personal stuff done.

I went to the bookshop recently to find some research material and one of the things that i found rather amazing was that there are now five minute bible stories available for children. “Great” ; I thought  “this is cool”, and then suddenly it hit me. We are so busy with stuff that we hardly have time left for God. We recon that 5 minutes a day is enough.

Yet when we are in need we expect God to respond immediately, and o brother do we get upset if He does not let things work out for us. I have read a very sad story, A missionary went to India, he sat down at the Gangesriver. Here he saw how mothers were feeding there children as offers to the crocodile who they saw as gods. A young mother arrived at the river with two children. One was skipping and singing along, and in her arms was a baby. The baby however had a deformity.  Watching this he thought that the mother will feed the baby to the croc’s, the very next minute she grab her perfect little child and threw it ti the crocodile. He jumped up in horror confronting the woman. ” why did you do that, there was nothing wrong with your child”? The mother picked up the baby and looked at him, she replied” we only give our gods the very best we have, what do you give your? ”

God does not want us to sacrifice our children. All He wants from us is to allow the Holy Spirit to live in our hearts and to live our life to honor Him. To think before we speak and do things. Just looking at creation and acknowledging Gods hand in it means that you are spending time with God. We must treat God like our Soul mate, and share everything with Him.

One of the things I find pretty amazing is the minute you tell people that you are a Christian, they treat you weird. Almost like you are some kind of wacko that is now going to force the bible down their throats.

I think the world has a bit of a miss concept about Christianity today. Or maybe as christians we brought this over ourselves. I know there are a lot of people out there that wear the bible on their sleeves, and I am not saying you cannot do that, but then when you listen to what they say, and you see the way they live one often wonders.

To me Christianity is a deep love for God. To have a personal relationship with Him. It is not about running around and shouting to the world that you believe in God, that is not what it is about, it is the way you live your life that matters.

If you are a christian it does not mean you don’t get cross, it just means you bite your tongue. You don’t swear and use fowl language when you are upset. It means you don’t judge people, because Christ never judge people.  You give without wanting anything back. It is a different way of giving all together. You don’t give hoping that there is something in it for you. It is not always about giving stuff or money either. No it is things like giving a listening ear to an elderly person who has no one else to talk to. It is giving a tissue to a crying stranger. It is finding yourself in a situation and asking yourself, how would God want me to act right now. Christianity is about being happy, yes happy, because you have an awesome Creator that made you different, that gave you a life and free will to choose to live for Him. That bless you, by giving you another day to live for Him.

Being a Christian means living your life for God every day.

There is an old saying, ” those closest to you hurt you the most” I never quiet understood that until I became a mother. There is nothing a mother will not do for her children.It is amazing but a mothers love for her children is a feeling beyond words.

Children hardly ever realize this and they often especially today’s kids treat their parents with disrespect. I know how it makes me feel when my kids treat me like I am a nothing. I try my best to only give then the best they want.

How much more must God hurt when we turn our backs on Him and treat Him like he is nothing and worthless. If it tears my heart appart when my kids are ugly to me just imagine for a moment how God must feel.

But despite all of this He still gave us His most valuable asset His Son to die so that we can live, and one day share a life with Him. I think we often forget that God is our father, that He is doing everything for us.

Maybe it is our turn to start giving back to God.

I have read a very interesting article about religion. The heading was Theology kills religion. That is a very true statement, because the more we are trying to proof the core off our believes the more we loose focus and start to doubt.

Doubt is the core off all evil at least that is what I believe. In the modern world we live in today we want everything to make sense. If it does not make sense to us and we cannot scientifically somehow proof things. We see it as non existent, or unreal.

Yet as children in some stage of our lives we all believed in Santa, the tooth fairy and even the Easter bunny. Yet we doubt in the existance of God we doubt even though we can see it around us every day.

A few years ago a professor stood in front of his class challenging his students with a question.
“Did God create everything that exists?” one of the students got up and bravely answered. ” yes He did ”

The professor then asked a him another question, ” so if God created everything, then he created evil. Since evil exists (as noticed by our own actions), so God is evil.The student was speechless and could not respond to the question. The professor then concluded that he proved that to “belief in God” was a fairy tale, and therefore worthless.

However another student asked the professor if he could pose a question. The professor allowed him to proceed.

He stood up and asked : “Professor does Cold exists?”

The professor a bit anoid about the question answered,”What kind of question is that? …Of course the cold exists… haven’t you ever been cold?”

The young man then replied:”In fact sir, Cold does not exist. According to the laws of Physics, what we consider cold, in fact is the absence of heat. Anything is able to be studied as long as it transmits energy (heat). Absolute Zero is the total absence of heat, but cold does not exist. What we have done is create a term to describe how we feel if we don’t have body heat or we are not hot.”

He continued with yet another question” does Dark exist?”,the professor replied”Of course”. The young man replied, “Again you’re wrong, Sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in fact simply the absence of light. Light can be studied, darkness can not. Darkness cannot be broken down. A simple ray of light tears the darkness and illuminates the surface where the light beam finishes. Dark is a term that we humans have created to describe what happens when there’s lack of light.”

The student then asked the professor one last question “Sir, does evil exist?” The professor responded “Of course it exists, as I told you at the beginning of this lesson we see violations, crimes and violence anywhere in the world, and those things are evil.”

The young man replied ” I am sorry sir, but Evil does not exist. Just as in the previous cases, Evil is a term which man has created to describe the result of the absence of God’s presence in the hearts of man.”

The professor had no words and bowed down his head.
The young man’s name was ALBERT EINSTEIN.

This is such an amazing lesson to be learned. We are so busy trying to explain God, and prove His existance. That we forget to find God within our hearts.

All we need to do is remove doubt and believe like children again.