When the Bible Blows Your Mind

Link: When the Bible Blows Your Mind

I am in one of those valleys

And I just want to go back up, but I keep pulling myself down.

I suck at change

The Creation of the World

That is the first subtitle in the Bible. I didn’t even get through the first verse before I was in shock. I am reading about the creation of this world! How blessed are we to have God’s word describe the beginning of the entire universe!?!? Even if you take it as largely figurative, it is still awesome. That is how I want to approach the Bible every time I read it — with awe. God loves us enough that he puts TRUTH down in written form so we can abide in it. Praise the Lord!

Karma doesn't exist.

http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/why-was-this-child-born-blind

This sermon isn’t by any means working towards that point, but as a Christian, we cannot believe in karma or the like, and Jesus affirms that.

“… suffering can only have ultimate meaning in relation to God. … [For} our suffering to have ultimate meaning, God must be supremely valuable to us. More valuable than health and life. Many things in the Bible make no sense until God becomes your supreme value.”

Too much time spent updating online junk

My life is updated pictorially. Q: And why did I feel the need to create a Twitter? A: To get text messages from John Piper.

But God uses it for his glory!

But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”

-1 Corinthians 2:9

"This is the most painful thing in the world: to see someone destroy their own life. You can’t save someone from themselves. They need to repent and walk with Jesus for themselves. But some of us are just too cowardly. We don’t like conflict. We don’t want our friends to not like us, and so we don’t say anything. That’s a sin. That’s a sin of pride and cowardice." -Driscoll

We must help our Christian brothers/sisters in Christ in humility, and if they don’t repent, we will be sorrowful, but it is not in our hands, yet we cannot do nothing. I need to work on humility.