Tuesday, September 23, 2008

How faith would change the world

So lets talk about faith. Faith has been on my mind the past few days. I think is it funny to watch people sit around and believe in things that we can't see but when it come to faith in God they will change their story on the issue of faith. Take the ozone layer for example...we know that the ozone layer is going bye bye but no one has ever been able to look up and see it. We know that is is burning away because we see the effects of it all the time. Climate change, melting of the polar ice caps, global warming...I'm sure you have heard it all before. This issue of loosing the ozone layer has really been center stage for a while now. We see groups forming to help awareness, we see groups going out planting trees, they make tee shirts, now the big "go green" stuff. But all of the people in the world have never seen the ozone layer itself. But we do know that it exists. Why is it then people have such a hard time having faith in God? We see Him/His effects all around us everyday. Yet we still struggle with knowing if He is real or not. We can believe in the wind because we see the effects of the wind but we can't believe in God? Hmm...maybe it's because we are not looking for Him. I think that if we took the time to pray and ask God to show Himself to us, we would see things in the world that we have never seen before. It would change the world we live in if we had just a little faith in God. The more we grow in our relationship with Him, the stronger our faith becomes. Wouldn't it be cool to see the issue of faith in God be a deciding factor in a political election not the issue of global warming...because I think that if people had faith in God and became close to him, we would learn to be smart and good stewards of what God has given us and we would all work together to help the planet. We would work together in every issue that came up not just global warming. We would see change in wars, terrorism, the world economy...we would become more Christlike and it would effect everything we do but it all has to start with faith in our Lord and Savior.

Try something...it takes 21 days for a human being to develop a habit, so for 21 days read the bible and pray. Ask God to start to revel Himself to you. Remember though to listen carefully and be on the lookout for God...watch, He'll show up and your world will never be the same!

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