Thank God I'm not the one...

A later Merry Christmas to all!
But why would Christmas be merry at all? Why in the world should we celebrate it as any sort of religious holiday? I mean.. it's been historically proven that the birth of Jesus didn't actually happen on December 25... right? What's the big deal?

The 'big deal' is that even though the date may not be exact... it's a celebration. It's a celebration of a birth of a man, a man who God gave us as his Son, to do a few things. First and foremost, he died for our sins. He did tons and tons of miracles and was completely sinless his entire life.

Even then... what should we care? What's the big deal?

Prior to this, people believed they had to do all kinds of crazy things in order to "get to heaven". Jesus came back to show us HOW to try to live our lives, but to also acknowledge that well.. there is no way that any of us are going to be able to do it.  But the idea was that he was going to show us how to try.

As i've posted before... yes, I'm a Christian, and I have Christian friends, Jewish friends, Muslim friends, and athiest friends. ALL of us basically suck. I mean - many times we mean well... you know, try to be nice here and there. we might even go to church on Christmas Eve and Easter... or even every Sunday and Wednesday.

God knew there was no way we'd ever be able to be sinless and live a perfect life, so Jesus came down here to take all of our selfishness... all of our hatefulness... all of our greed... our meanness.. he took it upon himself so that we would be able to be near God in heaven. You see... God is like light. You can't have absolute light and absolute dark together. It's one or the other. There is either existence of light (at least in some small way) or complete darkness. It's not that God wants us to suffer, he doesn't - it's more like a 'law of gravity"... it's just the way it works.




How could You walk when You went down that dusty street
How could You speak when all your friends checked out
How could You love after the great betrayal
How could You reach out when they nailed You down

[Chorus:]
True as true can be
That's what they say You are to me when I'm so fake
Does Your heart ache
If I had been the one I would not have been that strong
If I had been the one, yeah, I'd have been long gone

How could You hang on with Your mama crying
How could You keep on breathing in and out
How could You watch while Your whole world was dying
Did it all happen cause we let You down

[Repeat Chorus]

And all the things we think of as eternal would come undone
All I have to say is when I'm praying
Is "Thank God I'm not the One"


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Despite all of this... all of the videos and song lyrics. Whether you believe or don't believe. Whether you just wonder if this is all BS or not - why wonder? If you REALLY want to know, just ask God. Just pray a simple prayer... in private.
"God, I'm not sure if I believe or not. If you are real, I'd like to know that you are. Please reveal yourself to me.

Then continue on with life. Most likely... you aren't going to hear a loud voice in the sky or anything like that. It's possible it could even be months later. For some, even years. Just pray that, and wait. And when a very odd string of coincidences happen... ask God  "Is that you?" And pray the same thing again. What can it hurt? What's the worst that can happen?