Jericho Khan Clemente
11-STEM-A3
PHL 101
Paper #5
“God is with Us”
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If God don’t exist why do you believe you have a brain and you breathe air?
Have you read His Word the Bible? Or do you have willingness to read His Word?
Many are saying they are bibliophile and only few of them who already read, reading the
Bible.
If He didn’t exist we will never feel sleepy reading His Word. The ruler of the world is
Satan. Satan was a wise angel of God. But out of being conceited and wanted to be like
God to be worshipped, Satan disobey and rallied to bring sin. Satan is snatching the
truth from us to live in hell and many will disobey God.
God gave us a choice. As written in the Bible in Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the LORD is
the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” We may
have intelligence but true wisdom is seeking God not our comfort zone. The emptiness
we feel is meant to be filled by God. Only Him can make us satisfied. He is not god but
God. He is sovereign not god which product of idolatry. Idolatry is giving much time,
attention, focus other than God.
Life is short. How do you want to be remembered? Is it “in memory of the one who don’t
believe in God but believes in god.”? Or “in memory of someone who is fruitful serving
the one true God faithfully. He/She finished the race well by God’s grace.” All of us are
nothing without god. The knowledge, talent, skills… everything we said we can is from
God. No one can escape death. All of us will die. Evil happened to make a wonderful
story of God out of it. Joseph in the Bible was sold by his brother, was blamed as a
rapist though he is not. He remained faithful to God. Evil exist to bring out the pain. If
everything is perfect we will never see God’s love and faithfulness. As scripture stated
in Genesis 50:20 “You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He
brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.” Many of us will
see to avenge, but Joseph did not. Whatever you hear, read, sense always compare to
His Word, The Bible.
Yes, God can kill Satan. But our God who is alive, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful and
all-good, God intended to twist it which He will be noticed and all Glory for Him and
because he loved what He created, God treated Satan as a son like he treated all of us.
He even sent Jesus Christ to save all of us from sin. We can’t understand and see it.
But we will never learn without hardship, pain, errors. Always look in other perspective.
Do not stick to your own perspective, seek others perspective and most of all God’s
perspective. If God don’t exist, why you exist? Have you asked that question towards
yourself? Life is filled of questions, for we wanted to know the end of the story. Those
instead of stepping on stairs we prefer elevator or escalator or anything speedy or
instant to get there. If we don’t deprived our addiction we will never see the beauty of
hard work. Everything, in this world is meaningless without God. God is awesome
indeed. We will never see the can of our God without being emptied. Until our comfort
zones are gone, we will never notice the magnificent of our God. Yes, love moves in
mysterious ways. God is the most who moves in mysterious ways. Love exists because
of God. As stated in, 1 John 4: 8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because
God is love.” Love is not an emotion. It’s a commitment.
We can never out give God. Because, all from Him and for Him. If we question Him, we
question our existence. We humans tend to ask. Asking for something wanted to be
fulfilled right away. We even consider God as someone who gives and we overlook that
he must receive praise, glory and honor. God created us. He owns us. He deserves
everything from us. Only one is written in the Bible who came down more than two
thousand years ago to born as human, die and rose again. Lots of against was given to
Him. Jesus left His pleasing life in heaven to obeyed His Father’s command to give way
for salvation, reconciliation.
Isn’t amazing and awesome the love of God? Let us be mindful our time management.
There are Eighty six thousand four hundred seconds in a day. Our time management is
something to reflect and identify to check our priorities. Yes, God is invisible but can be
visible to our heart and when we notice great and small blessings we received and
receiving from Him. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ showed the greatest love story. As
written in Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were
still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Objections keep arousing from all of us out of selfishness. We ourselves even tend
wanted to be given attention and focus. God’s love language is obedience. To know His
will read His word-the Bible. The problem for of us is we know to pray as last resort
and/or only when we wanted. Prayer is communication with God. We must give time. As
written in Joshua 1:8 “Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and
night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and
succeed in all you do”
Instead of objecting have courage to read His Word. God answers prayers. First point
is, it may come same as we asked. Second, it came with the best answer which can be
not aligned from what we asked. Lastly, it can come on His timeline. Be observant and
learn to see not just your own perspectives. Most of all seek God’s perspective. We
always fall from second best due to overwriting or doing our way then His. His ways are
always perfect and shows His love.
His commands are His love letter. It came to prevent from the pain of second death. Life
is not perfect, only because our world is being ruled by Satan. Believe it or not, Holy
Spirit comes as a seal of receiving Jesus as our LORD and Savior; Never through
religion. Many define salvation as believing Jesus as Savior; neglecting that He is
LORD. Same as we wanted to be loved and to love, we must court God too. We can
never say we love God, but hating any person and vice versa. As written in scripture in
1 John 4:7-21 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love
does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us:
He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love:
not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for
our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No
one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made
complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And
we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the
world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and
them in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is
made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the Day of Judgment: In
this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,
because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or
sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have
seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this
command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.”
We must honor God. It is impossible to be obedient apart from Jesus. We need Him.
We can never save which includes our endeavors. God loves us very much. We must
not be like Dead Sea. Dead Sea only receives and never gives to other bodies of water.
As written in Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”