God’s Literally Speaking to You!

Sometimes I lose sight of the wonder of the Bible, and start to think of it as just more stories and bits of wisdom from a long time ago. And so I have to remind myself, this is so much more! This is literally God speaking to me! Every single passage in this book is something that God wanted to be available to me – and He thinks it is important that I read and meditate on it, and live it out. For scripture isn’t just something to think about, it is something to think. To make an integrated part of our minds. Ideally, we see our lives through the lens of God’s words. Ideally, we have the “mind of Christ,” for then, as it says in 1 Cor. 2:16, we will better understand the Lord and His thoughts. John Mark Comer writes about “filling your mind with the thoughts of God so regularly and deeply that it literally rewires your brain, and from there, your whole person.” (Live No Lies, Comer, 2021) This rewiring of our minds and the ways we think allows us to combat the lies of the Devil much more effectively, for whenever we find ourselves believing a lie, we can bring to mind the truths God has shared with us through scripture that combats and refutes the lie.

All this from simply reading the Bible as God speaking to us!

Ransom Wandro

7-30-25

The Fool.

According to Dictionary.com, a fool is a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense. According to the bible, a fool is much worse that that.

The bible says a lot about fools and what they are, so I am going to talk about what the biblical fool is.

1. The fool rejects God. Psalms 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. According to this verse, a fool is someone who thinks that there is no God, just like an Atheist would think.

2. Fools don’t take advice. Proverbs 15:5 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. The bible also says that fools despise wisdom and instruction, meaning that they won’t take advice from people. Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

We need to take advice from people and not think that what we do is always right. Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

In conclusion, you can be a fool in many different ways, so we need to be careful about what we do and how we act because God is living in you if you are saved.

Isaac S.

Your questions now answered.

People are always asking questions about God. I know I still am! So here are some questions and answers about our Creator.

“How do you know God is real?”

Many people ponder this question, and many, sadly, don’t find the answer to it. Or they just don’t accept the answer.

I have faith in God more than anyone or anything. If God isn’t real and we revolve around the sun for nothing then you mine as well kill me, and I wouldn’t care. But wait… you can’t kill me because we, and nothing else, would be in existence right now. God is the only one I can lean on and the only one we can fully trust the most. He is my hope and foundation. I have seen so much of what He has done in my life. He gave beauty. Blessings. I’ve seen so much that I can’t even explain why He gave it to me. When I pray for something He answers in a way I would never expect. Sometimes it’s pain to beauty and sometimes it’s straight up goodness. How could the air or wind perform these miracles? Surely the air or wind or particles around can’t answer a prayer I prayed in secret that was answered later. None of these blessings have come from random particles.

“How was God made?”

If the Big Bang is real how was the man who made the mass for it made? If there was no man then how was the mass made? It boggles my mind that people will believe in random mass and photons that made the universe but not God… and that God made it. Men and women can make men in their own image, (also known as multiplying children.) An explosion (or the Big Bang) destroys life. An explosion doesn’t create a baby’s first laughter. An explosion doesn’t create the grassy hills you rolled down as a child. An explosion doesn’t create the birds you hear chirping praising their Creator for the life He has given them. An “explosion” is an accident. You can’t make what you have seen by accident. God made us on purpose for a purpose. That purpose is to serve and glorify Him. Not glorify the earthly treasures. Not the wind our photons you think we came from. To glorify God. Our Creator.

“Why do bad things happen if God is supposed to be a good God?”

Adam and Eve (the first people and only people on earth at the time) had one command, on this used to be perfect, earth. They broke that one simple command and brought sin and evil into this world. You can’t just push someone in front of a car, kill them, and then not go to court and get your deserved consequences. No. You go to court and do get the consequences you deserve. We (all humans,) sinned (the fall of Adam and Eve) resembled pushing someone in front of a car…) We go to court and get a consequence. A lot of the time there is a money option. An option to pay for your actions with money. That money brings you into debt, so you can’t pay it. Jesus (the one who practically made you) came along, and paid that death through him being crucified. So, life is full of good and bad. God didn’t put evil into the world. He put good into the world and WE turned it into evil.

We all didn’t want to be born into a not perfect world. That is a fact I do know. You might say “but I wasn’t born a sinner,” or something along the lines of that. The truth is… you were born a sinner. Our human flesh is evil. We need to let go of our flesh. That doesn’t mean we will stop sinning, because we will keep sinning and do stupid things. We are humans and are on earth! We don’t stop until heaven. So since we are born with our evil flesh we will sin. It is human nature. But it still isn’t a good thing.

“Why would God forgive me?”

If your child was sentenced to death for a crime would you still not love them? We have a merciful Father. He loves us a ton. He wouldn’t have decided not to make us if He didn’t. He paid the price we couldn’t. 

“Why are all Christian’s so stuck up? Why do they think they are better than everyone?”

This is not true! We just want to spread the Gospel and be a light, but I personally do not agree with those who think being defensive and aggressive is the best way to evangelize. 

We know that we are sinners. Again, we should hate our flesh. We should hate our hearts. They are wicked and full of deceit. So your answer if you asked this question is we aren’t and love you no matter what.

“I prayed to God. He didn’t answer. Why didn’t he?”

To be honest, I asked this question before. A wise friend then told me that God isn’t a vending machine. You don’t just put a quarter in and revive what you want with God. What I mean by that is you don’t just pray for something then get what you want. God will answer your prayers but sometimes he says no. With Paul he prayed many many times to be healed and that things work out the way he wants. But God said “no.” In some cases you pray for something, God says “no,” then God does His work.

If God isn’t real there is nothing to live for. I am not believing that though for something to live for. I KNOW God is real. The reason we are here on this earth is to glorify Him. I’d be better dead than alive if He isn’t real. But the thing is… there would be no life if He isn’t real. It’s not possible to imagine a world without God. So I don’t just think or feel God's existence.I know for a fact that God exists.

So I now have a question for you… when will you believe?

~Bryar Engelhardt