More than anything

The world “everything” means the following, according to dictionary Oxford:

·                     1 all things ; all the things of a group or class:he taught me everything I knowherbal cures for everything from leprosy to rheumatism

·                     all things of importance; a great deal: I lost everything in the crashhe owed everything to his years in Munich

·                     the most important thing or aspect:money isn’t everything

·                     2 the current situation; life in general:how’s everything?everything is going okay

It can be synonymous of “total”, that according to dictionary Oxford is:

the whole number or amount of something: he scored a total of thirty-three points in total, 200 people were interviewed

Well, all this hassle (not only went because I got tired of looking for the definitions correlated) is just to say that it is plausible to attribute everything to God or completeness.” God is everything”, I hear say. Whereas it is the total and the total is all, everything is great. But then I find myself thinking about God and everything. I  come to the conclusion that everything is very little to define God. So for me, God is more than anything.

Stay with Jesus =)

The true God

Another post of #Thirty-three (original at 10/2011)

“Now for a long season Israel {hath been} without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.” – 2 Chronicles 15:3,4

In the context of this verse, the Israelit nation had been divided into two kingdoms – that of Israel (or the then northen tribes) to the north, and Judah, to the south. The kingdom of Israel chose to abandon God and follow his own way, worshiping other gods.

Then these arose a generation who did not know God, because there was who taught them about Him. But somehow, they rescued what their grandparents had done, and sought God – and found.

Today our occidental society is living a paradox. In a secular country, so free, Christians can freely exercise their faith. But it also gives freedom to others, and with that comes a generation that maybe will not hear about the true God.

Two things scare me: the growing number of atheists and agnostics, and perversion of the faith that has happened in the Christian/Gospel.

What kind of God the generation born today will know it? His absence, according to atheists? The possible existence of it, but the total neglect of Him to humans, according to some of the agnostics? The Santa Claus who brings presents to good boys and punishes the bad guys, according to some of the evangelical churches today? Neither option pleases me.

As Christians, we must fight all these false gods – the dead, the relapse, the Santa Claus – and present the true God, the merciful and just God.

And if somehow this generation appear (if it does not already exist), let us pray that, like the nation of Israel, it knows something we do not rescue and seek God. Because He will never fade of fold of humanity, just to look for it, and he will be found.