Bible Question: Help. My faith isn't shaken, but I'm suddenly questioning everything that brought me to God. Someone posted their testamony on another board yesterday. It was amazing and left me in awe. The man said that while driving to work, he was lifted up out of his car by a bright light and found himself in heaven in front of God. He said that God showed him heaven and then gave him the ability for a moment to think like God so he could understand the reasoning behind everything God created. He said that God told him if he believed in His Son, all that would be his. Then he found himself back in the car, stopped in the middle of a freeway. This supposedly is a man that didn't believe and at the urging of some friends was baptised anyway. He thought the whole thing a joke until this happened. The more I got to thinking about this last night, the more I got to doubting the more subtle things in my life that I attribute to God. I started questioning whether I wanted God to be behind the things that happened and therefore just believed it to be so. I couldn't sleep last night it upset me so. I've worried about it all morning. The things I felt sure where God are suddenly in question for me. I don't like it. |
Bible Answer: Here's a fable as told by Watchman Nee, a noted Chinese evangelist who was falsely imprisoned for 20 years in China until his death, in his book "The Normal Christian Life". Fact, Faith and Experience, were walking along the top of a block wall with Fact leading the way. Fact walked steadfastly forward. So long as Faith remained focussed on Fact, Faith did not falter. But as soon as Faith turned around to look at Experience, Faith lost balance and stumbled and Experience soon followed. The facts of God, as revealed in His Word, most expecially His incarnation in Christ Jesus, will not fail you. The facts of God, as revealed to you by the Holy Spirit, will not fail you. 1John 4:12 "No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit." On the other hand, feelings or experiences are fickle, changing like the the colors on a chameleon to match its surroundings. Remember, the fact is, you are in Christ; keep this foremost in your heart and your colors will reflect Him. We should seek to understand ourselves from God's perspective, and we should not seek to understand God from ours. Pray that He will keep you through these hard times and that He will use them to help you grow ever more abundantly in Him. He is REAL! |