Last night at youth, nearing the end, everyone was in the spirit, laughing. A young boy (Nathan) kept asking "Why are you laughing?" This really made me think....why am i laughing?
Well, at least for me, I laugh because I always think about how much people doubt God. They may not doubt consciously, but they may not believe fully that God is capable of something, or they think he wont do it. I know I've thought that before. Recently, over the past couple of days, one question has pressed on my brain.
Who are we to doubt God's power, and willingness?
"Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?"
- 1 Corinthians 1:20
This scripture is so true! It's like the biblical way of the saying "the more you learn the less you know."
I laugh because we try to figure God out, and predict what he will answer, heal, redeem etc. We make our conclusions based on what sins we have committed, how we live; basically, we judge ourselves the way we THINK God will judge....but like the scripture says, whenever we think we figured it out, God throws us in a whole different direction.
I laugh because we are so easy to doubt, when all we need is child-like faith in our heavenly Father and anything is possible!
Haha! It is such a wonderful feeling, knowing in your spirit that this world is only a stumbling block on our way to eternal joy!
God created everything!
Now, if you create something.....you know how it works, how to fix it, how to predict it, how it will eventually fade away and die.
Jesus knows all this about everything we know, have known, and ever will know. We are bounded immensely by the limits of this world.
God lives outside of anything human. Our emotions don't affect how he reacts, nor do our earthly circumstances.
He has complete control over every....that's right every situation.
So why should we even have to ask for something to happen.....all we have to do is proclaim that our victory is won even before we are fully in our trial!
We proclaim that we are healed before we are sick!
We pray and conclude with 'Amen'
Amen means it is so!
it. is. so!
so whenever you pray for something, by finishing it with Amen, you are saying to God that you believe that your prayer has already been answered! God just might not tell you the answer yet. But it is answered.
God is so amazing!!! Trying to think of how amazing he is in the limits of this mind is what makes me laugh!!
He is a marvelous wonder!
he reigns forever!
Hahaha!
This joy that I have, the world didn't give it...
and the world can't take it away!
