On our class a lot of things was talked about church history and a lot of people’s lives was revealed that made me feel awe and amazed at God’s perfect control with everything that’s happening in the world, even to the fullness of the details of it. I would like to share two great things I’ve learned and reflected upon this week’s lesson. First I learned that God uses people even those that are not his children or those that are not Christian to fulfill his purpose and plan for his people. It’s not just Christians who are given a tasked or are destined to bring a change and are used to be an instrument for a great twist in a society or nation. He also uses normal ordinary people even those who don’t even believe in him and don’t have faith in Him. This just shows that we couldn’t really comprehend the plan of God or even contain his wisdom as to how to handle things. Second thing I learned was the importance of going back to the apostles teaching whenever we feel we dig in something new or if we think we discover something that wasn’t discovered before. There really is nothing new under the sun, so if time comes that we feel we learned something new in the scripture the very way to respond to it was to go back to the time and teaching of the apostles and see if they have the same idea as we do and if they don’t we need to think twice as to whether we are really discovering from the scripture of we’re already apart from it.
Often times in my life I’m too judgmental and and too doubtful specially in regards to non-Christians desiring change and aiming to do something great. The very thing that I would respond to that, was a disbelief and a disgust thinking that they can’t really contribute any good thing because in the first place they don’t even know the one whose good and the author of every good thing; they don’t have God with them. How could we expect any good result from them? But as I saw the life of Constantine I’m totally embarrassed and was in total realization that God was the one whose in total control, if he plans to use someone for a change or to doing something good he could. Even if they are not his children they could still be used by God and their lives would still be a good testimony. His power could be seen in them even if we might think that they are not even Christian. I think that’s a very big part where I need to redirect my thinking. It just made me realized that becoming too judgmental and too doubtful is not a good thing, but to just let God do his own perfect plan. Another thing I assess with my own self was that I’m easily astonished by new great ideas about scripture and all those new things that pastor’s think through and all their what if’s. I used to think they really did come up a new discovery. Like for example a Pastor in our place has this idea that maybe fallen angel could be aliens. That the very thing that they they came from a different dimension could just mean that they did came from a spiritual dimension. When I heard of it, I really wonder, that could be possible. I never really had that idea that it’s important to look at the past and the very teaching of the apostles and compare it with the aid of the scripture. I think I need to be more bold and be more into analyzing ideas before accepting them or thinking of them as something that’s great because it’s new.
As I evaluate a lot of lapses as to the way I act and the way I think through things I come to the realization that it’s really important to plan steps to be able to start redirecting for a change. First thing I would do was to refrain from thinking negative and to underestimate what God can do in the life of all the people I encounter. I will aim to stop being skeptical but to just trust God’s hand and his direction. Second was to be more thankful with each of the person’s life that I come to encounter with. I might not know that they contributed something great in me and had cause a change that I just don’t recognize. Third was to be able to assess teachings that Pastor’s and leaders share. To first dig in as to what the Bible say about such thing. To be a good researcher of what truly did the Bible say, not just accepting anything that’s good to hear. The very important thing of it all was to completely lean on the Lord to ask him the wisdom and strength to be able to made all these things possible.
