This will be my last post for a while.
What I am about to share is true. It really happened. It is not the only encounter I’ve ever had with God, but it is the one that changed my life. I will not go into details or try to prove this experience. You can choose for yourself whether you believe my testimony.
Around the age of 10 or 11 I had a conversation with God. He revealed Himself to me and He spoke to me and answered many questions I had. I don’t remember all that took place or all that we talked about or the span of time this happened in. It could have been days or it could have been months. I don’t remember.
One of the parts of our conversation I do remember and I want to share here is when I asked Him why He didn’t love everyone. He told me, oh no David, I love everybody, but not everybody loves me. Then He allowed me to experience what I could take in of His love for the whole world. He really does love each and every one of us completely. He also told me that the fear of death comes from the fear of being alone and took away a tormenting fear I had of death reassuring me by revealing to me I am never alone and will never be alone.
When God allowed me to experience His love for the whole world I was overwhelmed with His love. I asked Him, how can anyone not love you? You are so wonderful? I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t understand why everyone in the whole world didn’t run to Him and embrace Him and live in this place of joy and love with Him. Then He told me that the reason people don’t love Him is because they don’t believe He is really there.
It is not that He hides from us. It is not that He doesn’t reach out to us. It is that we refuse to believe He is really there. Instead we believe what other people tell us. We fail to know God and to live in the knowledge of the truth of His presence because we put our faith in the minds and doubts of men.
God really does love you and He is very near you all the time.
We each can choose to believe this, the true reality or we can choose to believe what a world without faith that doesn’t know God would have each of us to believe.
That’s all I wanted to share.
I hope God uses this to encourage all of you who believe. We are all family.
Blessings,
- Dave
Hi Dave,
I am a fellow blogger and have just been awarded “The Versatile Blogger” award by another blogger. (Please understand that I know little about it but am grateful to have been awarded it.)
As far as I can make out it is an award given by bloggers to other bloggers whose work/blogs they appreciate.
Part of getting this award is that you have to pass it along to 15 recently discovered blogs you enjoy reading.
Since I have visited your blog a few times now and really enjoyed it (albeit that I normally prefer to just read it and then leave, I thought I would award this award to you also as the author of a blog I enjoy reading.
I have also, as part of this, detailed your blog on one of my blogs “Voices of Glass” http://voicesofglass.com/2012/01/10/yay-an-awar-now-that-is-somewhat-bemusing/
I hope you don’t mind and understand that I really do enjoy your blog which is why I included it in my list.
Kind Regards,
Kevin.