15 August 2012
Look, I'm not saying I disrespect Atheists or Agnostics or anything like that. But something is stirring inside of me, and it's something my brain and my heart are telling me to share.
I've seen my fill of the battle of God vs. science. I've seen my fill of people mocking others for believing in God. And you know what? I've also been a witness to being physically and mentally threatened, as well as sexually harassed with connections to my beliefs.
I've seen a lot...and I just wanna say...
I don't "believe" there is a God. I don't "believe" there is a Savior. In my heart, I know both of them are there. But I'm not hating on any other person that thinks differently.
I just want to say I know.
There is someone watching over me. Someone with more love and devotion to me than I can ever imagine. There is someone that wants only to make me have the sweetest of joy.
There is also someone who is cheering me on. There is someone who knows what it's like to be on Earth. There is someone who knows the pain, the hardship, the anguish, for our benefit. He lived through it. To save us all, He endured every pain in this world imaginable. And why? So that every person in this world, even the most lowdown, insufferably wicked being that has ever walked this Earth, could come back to live with both of them.
The outrage of being betrayed? He's felt it. The searing ache of a broken bone? He's felt it. The undeniably dark, cold depression of being alone? He's felt it. Not only did He feel all of this, but He was crucified. He let them torture Him, mock Him, while silently uttering a prayer for His Father to forgive them, because they didn't realize what they were doing. And I'm not saying every Atheist does, but I've witnessed many that do, but how dare you mock Him? Even if you don't believe He exists, why do you make a joke of His sacrifice? He didn't only do it for the people that believe. He did it for you. Any pain you've felt in your lifetime, He knows what it's like. He bled at every pore, writhed in unbearable agony, for your sake. And how do you think God felt? Watching His son, being tortured and hurt, mocked and scorned, not doing anything? Because it's not like He didn't have a choice. He could have stopped them. But why didn't He? Why did He watch His eldest son, His perfect, pure, innocent son, die the most painful death, a death that a human would beg not to have? He did it for us. He did it to save us. It was the only way. And what do we do? What do we do to repay Him? We mock Him. We laugh at Him.
Even if you think He's just a nothingness in space...what if you're wrong? Do you think it doesn't hurt God to see you make a mockery of the terrifying death He had to watch His son endure? The blasphemous pictures, the spiting words...do you not think it pierces His Heavenly Heart?
Please...even if you don't believe, pretend that He exists.
He's not an evil God. He does not live to hurt us, destroy us, and give us pain. He is a man. We were created after His likeness. He has a heart. He feels things, too.
Why do you think I call Him my Heavenly Father? Because He is. He nurtures me with His love and blessings. He is the reason I can keep on going through every day. He is the reason I can smile, the reason I can love myself, and who I am.
He is the reason I am living.
And even if you don't believe...even if you think I'm absolutely barking mad...
Why would you want to hurt Him?
For a change...don't think about my feelings. Don't think about how sad I am at the malice and cruelty that some people can possess.
Think about Him. And His son.
How...
How do you think *They* feel?
Believe. • Opuss № I