BoldGrace

Now I lay me down to sleep…..

When you lay your head down on the pillow tonight do you really believe God, our Father loves you?  Jesus taught his disciples to pray once and he started the prayer with "Our Father".  I believe he did that because he wanted us at all times to understand we are all his children and what I pray for myself I pray for the whole world.

Right now as I type this there are appoximately 6,727,010,269 people living on this earth.  Because of what Christ did at the cross by breaking down all the walls of hostility I can confidently pray for each and every one of them knowing that our Father has demonstrated his perfect unconditional love that is based solely on what He did rather then what any of us has done or ever will do.

Did you know that in the next 24 hours that approximately 155,000 of us will lose our earthbound lives?  We also know from statistics that if you counted every single person that even hints at being a christian it would only amount to about 33 % of the population at the very most?

That means by the most liberal standards that approximately every 24 hours 100,000 people are HELL bound without any hope whatsoever according to what is taught by most of the christian world. 

Did you also know that in the next 24 hours that approximately 250,000 babies will be born?  Now out of that number it is fair to assume that about 167,000 will eventually die and go straight to HELL according to what is taught in the christian world.  Now I have always been pro-life, but if I believed in the christian teachings of today I think I would have to move to the pro-choice stand because at least when we take a life through abortion we are assuring the life we took to have a free ticket to heaven.

Now I hope my point is starting to come clear.  According to the christian teaching in most churches God Our Father is an absolute FAILURE.   Of course, I totally and completely REJECT that thinking.  OUR FATHER can be counted on to love each and everyone of us with a PERFECT love. 

When I lay my head down to sleep tonight I am absolutely confident that the 155,000 people who are destined to leave this earth in the next 24 hours will leave safely surrounded by the full and perfect glory of God.  I am confident that he will take all their life experiences and use them for good.  

Why don’t we trust that God can overcome any decision or bad choice that we have made on earth?  I’ll tell you why, because we have been taught that God can not be trusted.  We have been taught that we must take it upon ourselves to get right with God.  We have been taught that the sacrifice that Jesus made is only good if we sign up and stay faithful.  How could God ever trust something so important to us?  He couldn’t, and he didn’t.   Let me quote a favorite scripture of my good friend Steve W.

ISA 25 6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

You see, I believe God did all that when he sent Jesus to this earth.  On the cross Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED", and when I lay my head down to sleep I am always reminded of those words knowing that God OUR FATHER is not a failure.  WE can trust him, WE should trust him, and it’s time the christian world quit insulting our God by teaching otherwise.