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| WHAT I’M BETTING ON |
I’m betting that there is an ALMIGHTY GOD who identified HIMSELF
as the great I AM (THE ETERNAL EXISTENCE ONE).
He is a God whose
intellect is all encompassing, and has unlimited creative power that can be
activated with his voice. One who
exercises his power over the whole universe.
Perhaps some
would ask; what evidence do you have to back up your belief system. My response
would be simplistic for I would say it is a faith based system. A Faith that is anchored in the Biblical
scriptures.
Further
evidence has been obtained by experience while working out my salvation.
Understanding that faith is of a spiritual nature and not a mental exercise the
discovery of one’s spirit allows one to contact and communicate with this
Almighty GOD.
One of the
first manifestations of having made contact with GOD is the new birth
experience. God the HOLY SPIRIT comes to
indwell the believer’s human spirit and becomes a life changing witness that
you have become a child of GOD by regeneration.
This experience is undeniable
though some have not placed the proper value upon it and have strayed. Or as the Apostle Paul has put it; there are
those who love this present world more than the riches of Christ.
The second
viable experience is known by the term; the Baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT. The
initial experience is when the HOLY SPIRIT comes to an individual and virtually
inundates the whole being of the person with himself and enables them for
spiritual service. Both of these
experiences are of an objective nature and are undeniable realities.
While I can’t
address everyone who denies the existence of GOD, I can speak to the time
before I became a regenerated child of HIS.
I stood
where those who are classified as the unsaved. I knew the uncertainty of having
no hope after death. It wasn’t that I feared the unknown but the uncertainty of
it caused me to be at ill at ease.
I had been
taught that the universe was acting and reacting upon itself as the stars and
planets flew thru the space with the greatest of ease until they smashed into
each other.
Of course
the language was a bit more sophisticated and convincing than that. To think I
believed what they were teaching me to some degree blows me away.
Those who
find themselves in somewhat of the same situation ultimately are betting on
something different from what I am. They are betting that there isn’t anything
after death. No existence, no judgment, no nothing.
They have to
believe the universe has always existed and a freak of nature somehow brought
about what we now see as our world.
It takes a strong
faith to believe that theory or some other version of it.
I’m betting on
the ALMIGHTY GOD, the creator, the God who planed all this and sent His own Son
to save us all from our sins.
