I am daily amazed at the fact that life exists.  I am alive.  You are alive.  We are floating around in space.  Where is space?  Where did it come from?  Those are questions that can only be answered in one way.  There is some force out there.  Bigger than us.  A force  that we can only explain as God.  A supreme being.  We believe--because we are alive.  Because we exist.

This God, this creator, will be on the side of good, or the side of evil--since those are the ruling factors in the nature of men.   If, as we believe, he is good--then he would not put us here and then walk off.  Leaving us with no communication.  No mutual interaction.  No answers.  There would be no point in our existence if that were the case.  So where has he spoken?

Hebrews 1:1-2  "God, who at sundry (different) times and in divers (various) manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, who he has appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds."

Jesus came.  He spoke of love.  Love for each other.  He spoke of forgiveness.  Forgiving others as He forgives us.  He spoke of peace.  Not war, not murder, not persecution.  He spoke of everything that I can think of that is good.  Jesus was God, is God, is good, speaking to us.  There was not anything in his message that would hurt someone or do them harm.

I cannot help but wonder what kind of religion--such as Isis--can say it is righteous when  they  force their evil beliefs on others.  A religion that delights in killing, persecution, captivity, rape, mutilation, and forced submission to their brand of worship.  The Christians in Iraq are being murdered.  Because of who they are.  We need to have thankful hearts that we have freedom to worship the one true God.  We need to pray for those Christians.  They are suffering.

Jehovah is a God of peace.  The one true God.  The only God.   Acts 4:12  "Neither is there salvation in any other: for is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life..."  John 14: 6    There is no other.

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