Posts Tagged ‘Story’

Aug 11 2008

God in Your Story

In my last post, The Truth of the Gospel, I shared my story of being saved from suicide and subsequently coming to faith. I also talked about how when I became a Christian, I realized that God was with me even in those horrible circumstances. I realize that many people share stories similar to my own, and many have stories of far worse things happening to them. It is very tempting to ask, either during or after, where God was in those times. While it may seem as though God abandoned you to be raped, beaten, neglected, depressed, empty, etc and chose to love others by blessing them with talent, good looks, money, opportunity, intelligence, friends etc, there is another question that my personal experience has lent me to ask:

Why wasn’t it worse?

Why wasn’t I molested?

Why wasn’t I cut on?

Left in a ditch for my parents to discover?

I said before that my still being alive is evidence of God’s work in my life, and it is, but all the evil things that didn’t happen to me are further evidence. Read more »


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Written by Mike | Posted under Apologetics, Biblical Reliability, Death, Faith, Fallen World, God, Grace, Jesus, Love, Modernism, Truth, Worldview, doubting, epistemology, heart | 22 Comments »








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