Give God a Chance

Today our nephew’s fiancé came to our home to stay in the spare bedroom in the basement for a few weeks while they finalize wedding plans and get things ready to go for their married lives here in the Wichita area. We offered to have her stay some time ago and have been looking forward to being able to help out. Her mother is also staying with us for the weekend, having driven down here with her from their home in Wisconsin.
We enjoy being able to do things like this, and hope that their stay with us will be comfortable and pleasant. We aren’t great entertainers, preferring instead to have our house guests just find what they need and make themselves at home.
Our “things” aren’t that important to us. We have things that we enjoy; we have things that have sentimental value; we have things that make our lives pleasant. But all of those things don’t provide us with what we truly need for life and living. So they are like tools to us. They are here for us to use. We have them so we can make others’ lives more enjoyable and so…yes, I’ll be honest here…we can let others know that we live by a different standard.
Christianity (not religion) is that standard. We put out what I consider to be poor, weak efforts at making this world a better place and telling others about the love of God. But we also believe that God takes those poor, weak efforts and multiplies them, making them work out to His glory.
Now you may think that’s all a bunch of garbage, and you’re entitled to your opinion. However, if you’ve never tried it, how do you know what it is? Have you ever really looked objectively at Christianity? At God? At a way of life and living that offers hope, peace, and love? I thought so.
However you look at life and living, know that the Author and Creator of life loves you and desires a relationship with you that is beyond anything you can think or know. Give God a chance.