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By Mildred Sheldon
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This is how everything that was created came into being. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2 NIV)
I ask God why don’t all believe in creationism but I go to my Bible and find the answer so beautifully explained in Ephesians 6:12. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Satan is a fallen angel and he has more power than we do. He is so deceitful and persuasive and many fall victim and are misled.
My Bible is my life’s blood. In John 14:6 Jesus said it all. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” I give thanks and praise God for all of His wonderful promises because I know that no matter what come trials, tribulations or peace and joy I find in the Holy Living Word this promise. Philippians 1: 6 “I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Many ask how a God of love can permit some to spend eternity in hell with Satan. God created us with a mind and gave us the ability to choose whom we would follow. II Thessalonians 1:6-10 says it far better than I can. “God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.” He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he come to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.”
How can you believe in a God you cannot see some ask but I go to Colossians 1:15-20 for the answer. “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
My Bible tells me the most amazing things and the greatest of these is the fact that the Father who started this will follow one course and one course only. God is dependable and I can rely on Him for all of my needs. Revelations 22:12-13 says it all. “Look! I am coming quickly and My reward is with Me to repay each person according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
*All scriptures are taken from Life Application Study Bible NIV version.
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