Is it blind ignorance?

Well, we all have something to say about something, right? Difference being the voicing of such. Some of us are more vocal than the rest, while the rest finds it fitting to keep it in.

Take this for an example. We always invite people to come to church, to come experience the love of God, to encounter Gods power and glory. But, do we ever stop to think how that is received?

- God is in my church.
- Gods power and glory is in my church.
- My church offers salvation.
- Truth and revelation is in my church.

Mxm, like God can be confined to a place and time.

Back in the day when someone told me about God and what He says in  'His word' I would always shut down if I did not have enough energy or the time to push back. I mean, think about it. Why would I give all I have worked for, so hard, to a god that stays in selected places (church). Worse part being on a recovering journey from racial segregation as a black person. You ask me to bow to a white man who got killed by other whitties because they did not like what he said. You ridicule my traditions and tell me the bible says they are a sin to god. You tell me that the same loving god has a place waiting for me, to burn, if I do not let go of my sinful ways. And in that, you throw a curve-ball at me and say the same god sent his son to die for all the sins of the world..... Can you hear yourself? Why on earth would I join you in your confusion?

Little did I know that a few years later I will be professing my love for Christ. What changed? Let's just say, it is still in the process of changing. I am learning more of who this God is. Who this gracious, sacrificial son of God is, and what that means for me and those around me. I learnt to accept the bible as a testimony of people who encountered God and documented it and that testimony I have grown to accept as God revealing Himself to ME, not anybody else, but ME. Once this salvation is accepted as personal, and applied as such, my life changes. And as my life changes for the better, God is, in turn, impacting the lives of others through me.

Do I have all the answers to your questions? Nah, I still have my own questions to deal with. And accepting that some of the questions will remain unanswered puts my mind at ease. Is it blind ignorance? Call it what you may, but I have lived my early years believing in spirits that brought only pain and torment to my life and the lives of my family members. And its only now that my life has meaning to me.

That being said, salvation is personal, and unless its accepted and applied as such, no personal and interpersonal change will be seen.

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