You Decide If There Is A God

A lady went to a beauty shop to have her hair cut and her nails painted and trimmed. As the lady began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects.

When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the beautician said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked Sheryl who has MS.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

Then Sheryl thought for a moment, but didn't respond because she didn't want to start an argument. The beautician just finished her job and the customer left the shop. Just after
she left the beauty shop, she saw a woman in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and not groomed at all. She looked dirty and unkempt.

Then Sheryl turned back and entered the beauty shop again and she said to the beautician: "You know what? Beauticians do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised beautician. "I am here, and I am a beautician. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" Sheryl exclaimed. "Beauticians don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and be very unkempt, like that woman outside."

"Ah, but beauticians DO exist! What happens is people do not come to me."

"Exactly!"- affirmed Sheryl. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!

What happens is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
~Unknown, contributed by my wonderful sister, Susan.

I challenge each of us to go outside this Spring and notice every new birth sprouting up from the earth and convince me that there is no God!

1Co 8:6 - "yet for us there is {but} one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we {exist} for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we {exist} through Him."

"The very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe."
~Celia Laighton Thaxter

Stand in awe of God today and serve Him in all that you do.

Mike

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EVERYONE,,,,PLEASE,,LET US ALL ADD MIKE'S SISTER, SUSAN TO OUR PRAYERS. READ ON..

I KNOW WHO I AM
I am God's child (John 1:12)
I am Christ's friend (John 15:15)
I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17)
I am bought with a price (1 Cor. 6:19-20)
I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
I am a personal witness of Christ (Acts 1:8]
I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt. 5:13-14)
I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)
I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8: 1-2)
I am a citizen of Heaven. I am significant (Phil.3:20)
I am free from any charge against me (Rom. 8:31-34)
I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor.5:17-21)
I have access to God through the Holy Spirit [Eph 2:18]
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6)
I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom.8:35-39)
I am established, anointed, sealed by God (2 Cor.1:21-22)
I am assured all things work together for good [Rom. 8: 28]
I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit (John 15:16)
I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3: 12)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13)
I am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15: 1-5)
I am God's temple (1 Cor. 3: 16). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10)
I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3). I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
I am God's co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God's workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected (Phil. 1: 5)
I have been redeemed and forgiven (Col. 1:14). I have been adopted as Gods child (Eph 1:5)
I belong to God
Do you know
who you are!?

Thank you to my sister, Susan, who supplied these wonderful thoughts for today. Susan was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and has received two chemo treatments to date with one more scheduled prior to surgery. Keep her in your prayers as you pray for others on your prayer list.

I ask God to bless all of the readers of this forum and to address every individual battle that you are engaged in.

Blessings,

Mike

HI Sharon,

That was a great story and a very good way of showing and telling someone why things are the way they are and that God does exist! A prime example, I am sorry to say, is going on right here in the United States. I am sure that some will not like hearing this, but the truth is the truth. We have to look at all that has gone on here...all the things that people have done to remove God from different places.

Let's start with the separation of State and Church...we can no longer have prayer in school; Teachers can not talk about God to their students as they used to when I was in school; the Pledge of Allegiance is no longer said everyday as before; we are not allowed to have a monument with the 10 Commandments on it in a Federal Courthouse, yet we can place our hand on the Bible in court to testify...that one really puzzles me; and they keep talking about removing the words "In God We Trust" off of money. 

Is there any wonder why there is so much "crap" going on here? People should take a look at the difference in the people and kids in the deep South compared to other places. Most people there attend church on a regular basis, most kids there are taught respect, morals and values still, Louisiana still has corporal punishment in schools and the kids are much more behaved there...this just mentions a few things.

Now look at the difference at other places...I will talk about NY and CA right now since I live(d) in both places. Most kids have no respect for their parents or anyone else, they talk worse than some sailors, many parents have no idea where their children are and seem to not care, kids at younger and younger ages are having sex, using/selling drugs, killing people, and the list goes on and on.

I think that this just goes to show how different things are when people have God in their life. So you tell me...does God exist? I certainly believe He does. He is always around me, helping me and blessing me.

To end let me just say this...when an atheist is on their deathbed what are they saying many times...."Oh God!"

Thank you God for being a part of my life, and for loving me even more than I can ever possibly love you! Amen!

God Bless You All,

Love, Marilyn