THE HUMAN:
The Battles you have overcome and the life you live now, make no difference, you are the decisions you’ve made. Your life of drugs and crime and all that came with it, is the very structure of who you are and that will not change, it can not change. It’s fine that you desire change, but it’s nothing more then a desire. An example, I have a field behind my house that consist of about 10 horses, and 1 goat. Now, obviously I can’t interpret the mind of the goat, but if you watch him closely, it is clear to see that he thinks he is a horse, he runs with the horses, eats with them, lies with them, everything. My point is while he thinks he’s a horse, he’s still a goat. Much like you, hanging around Christians, reading your Bible, doing devotions and constantly seeking the Lords will in prayer, you live a completely different life then your past, but the fact is your still an addict, your still a criminal, it won’t change.
ME
It seems that your past will surely follow you, wherever it is GOD takes you. If you’ve read my past blogs, it’s comes as no surprise that for the longest time, drugs was a big battle in my life. It led me down a road of crime, a road of addiction, and a road of suffering, I could go on and on, but that is not what this blog is about. What this blog is about, is does who you were, make you who you will be? Am I that goat? I don’t want to be that same person I was for so long, I want to be different and I want people to notice a difference in me. I know I’ve made some mistakes, and I’ve repented and I feel like I’m a different person inside, so why do humans see me as the same person. Am I striving after something that can not be obtained. Am I falsely mistaken that people can live a different life, I mean people can change who they are, right? They have to be, if not then there is no hope. Because all humans are evil and sinners, and you can never have a clean heart in GOD,and that’s how it will always be, if this is true.
(THE VERDICT):
People, can not change who they are, however, they can change what they do. This might seem redundant, I assure you their not, while you might not egage in some of the activities you used to, your soul remains the same. While I don’t do drugs, or constantly break the law, unless you have GOD in your heart, your still full of the wickedness you always have been. You see, your soul can’t be empty, you either have GOD or the world. My point is while YOU can’t change who you are, GOD can change who you are. GOD can change anyone, anytime, or everyone at the same time, it’s all according to His will and His time. Here of late, I’ve been hearing that I can’t change, even GOD can’t change me, which I would understand from a non believer, unfortunately this isn’t the case. While, it hurts and truly cuts me to know thats what people think of me, especially some of my brothers and sisters in Christ, GOD reminds me, that He is all powerful. There is nothing that He can’t do. I am thankful that I have a loving and merciful GOD, and His wrath and judgement in which we all deserve death for our sins, won’t be as harsh as that in which we would judge others. Remember, if there is no hope that someone can change from their past, while my past might not be detail for detail like others, we all have the same past, born evil sinners on our way to hell, without the existence of change, we are all on our way to HELL…
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Shaun this is one of your best posts yet! This is why we can’t let ourselves get down worrying about what others think. It’s like getting depressed because we can’t make the wind change directions. Just keep trusting in God, and we will take care of anyone who tries to bring you down. Don’t forget, your His child, and God protects His children.
Keep it up, and God bless you!
Hi Shaun,
I wrote a very negative post to you the other day, and I apologize for it. Especially if it is one of the ones that resulted in your current discouragement. Although I also think that you owe me an apology for deleting what I said, replacing my words with ones you thought were more positive, and keeping the post. This was very dishonest and is the type of thing that shows why atheists have a problem with the hypocrisy of christians.
I do wish the best for you, but I also know that it will not come about from praying or belief in any god. I do not propose to deny any person their beliefs, no matter how misguide I think they are. Whatever changes you have made in your behavior since your bad boy days came from within you, and you should be proud of yourself.
I too was a bad boy in my younger days – fighting, theft, destruction of property, burglary & robbery – and when I was a teenager until about 21 was heading nowhere. I have also been an atheist all my life. Starting college when I was 21 and reading widely to learn as much as I could is what saved me. By the time I was 28 I had a Master’s degree, had seen much of the world and met a lot of different kinds of people, and worked a lot of different jobs.
So what I am saying is you are wrong: You CAN change, and you and I and myriad others who have changed prove it. Be proud of it.
Nick, I very much appreciate your apology, and I should’ve deleted your comment, as opposed to changing it to what I wanted it to say, honestly, your choice of words were just aggrevating and I played the get even game, and my apologies for that. And I am extremely proud of the person I am today, and while your post did aggrevate me, and did encourage me a lil more for this post. It’s not the whole reason, and I’ll open up to you a bit. I have a girlfriend who is an adult, old enough to make her own decisions and everything, good Christian girl and her parents are Christians as well. Now, I know your belief on Christianity, so you can disregard that, I was just informing you of the situation and the people in it. And because of some of my past blogs about my past and my trouble, they have pretty much forbid our love for each other. Not that they know who I am now, because they don’t, and for some reason my blog site, has put them so far past reality it’s ridiculous. But at the same time, my girlfriend doesn’t want to lose that connection, and I am in no way trying to pull her away from it. They are pushing her away enough, and their only reason is, he’s the same person, he can’t change, this is who he is, what if this happened, what if that happened. I say, get to know me. And that played a big role for this blog.