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Hi Ashley,
Yes, you have experienced the greatest miracle of all - the moment when a human being is changed for all time, born again and given a new life.
It is so sad that so many people, including hundreds of thousands of people who call themselves Christians because of the traditions of their parents, miss what you have.
I have been called a fool many times by those who do not know Jesus Christ. The sad fact is, they have no way of knowing what you and I have unless they surrender their pride and self reliance to God through his Son. To them it seems absolutely foolish.
Those who do not know Jesus Christ cannot know what we know and have - it is utterly impossible without personally knowing him first - and it is utter foolishness to them.
But knowing what I know now, I would rather be a fool in the eyes of the world than a fool who refuses to reach out and ask Him to reveal himself to me. Once He does, it's almost impossible to imagine the way we once were.
If I had blindly trusted in Him and had no answer - ie - if He really did not exist - it would only have been a disappointment, but life would have gone on anyway. But to not have reached out and to have given up what I now have would have been tragic, as it is for so many people in this world.
The majority of people, as seen throughout my life, and in many forums over the years, look at Christianity by what they see in those who call themselves Christian, in the media, and sometimes even through reading through the Bible and judging it by their own standards. If they would just take the chance and honestly ask the God of the Bible to reveal himself to them, what a difference it would make!
Again, unfortunately, many who would say that they have done that have in reality asked Him to reveal Himself while secretly having already decided that He does not exist.
It's incredible that we will pour liquid into our gas tanks in our cars from a gas pump because we have faith in the label that says it's gasoline, eat food prepared by someone else from a can because we have faith that the label is correct and that it's not poison, fly in jetliners, because we have faith that it's not going to crash, and so on. We humans do many, many things by faith, yet we Christians are called foolish because we have faith in God.
Many would answer, yeah, but my faith has been proven! True, but our faith in God has also been proven! You can't see what God is doing in my life any more than I can see you reading this somewhere out there in cyberspace! However, I have faith that you ARE reading this, and it is proven when you answer! Similarly, my faith is proven to me over and over again by what God does in my life and by the many thousands of answers he has given me over again.
Thank you for sharing.
God bless,
Dave
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