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happy easter, everybody!
I pray that the Holy Spirit fills your hearts and tenderizes them, molds them, and puts in there the confidence, love, compassion, and obedience to do God's will as you have made a covenant with the Father and have made a decision on your part to do His will for the rest of your lives. I pray may the Holy Spirit be that motherly guidance in your lives to walk straight forward on the path that our Father have created for us. God sent his only son down to Earth to be crucified for our sake, for our sins. There is no greater love than this. Not only that but He rose up from the grave in 3 days time; death has been beaten. God is good and He will continue His goodness throughout the years and let us remember that and be gracious, thankful, and joyful that our Father is the most kind, powerful, and faithful Father that has ever lived. He is the true living God and may everyone know that. I pray that as His children, we continue to walk on this path He made for us with boldness, faithfulness, confidence and without doubt, obedient and willing, patience and compassion as what the Father and His son have done. I also pray that whatever happens, good or bad, we still keep faith in our Father for He is faithful to His word. I pray that we put all our troubles in His hands so that He can straighten it out for us for when we trust in Him, the outcome is victory; I proclaim it in His name. I pray in His Mighty Name, Amen.

Let's update on what happened this past weekend, shall we?

Friday - FIRST THING: I had to write a rejection letter to a certain person with a good friend of mine, Anna. We spent an hour trying to figure out how to make it sound less painful for them. I know you're shocked that someone actually liked me (LOL) because I was. Anyway, as I was writing this rejection letter to him, I got two revelations. The first revelation that God gave me was this: this guy is not the right guy for me, however hard I try to think of him that way, it won't happen (lol harsh I know). The second revelation that I got was this: I can understand now how my best friend Darin felt 6 and a half years ago when he knew I was in love with him; that guilt of not being able to give back that love that they have for us. I think I can smile at him more casually than I could have before and I thank this person for that. SECOND THING: I got a chance to talk to Anna's boyfriend, Chris, more about our Father. You see, Chris was and kind of is still a Christian. From talking to him this day I realized one thing; talking to other Christians who question the Bible and doubt its truth is one of the hardest things to encounter. If you think that going through trials is hard, think again. I've been through many trials and I wouldn't be who I am right now if I didn't. I'm thankful for that. However, the questions Chris asked me really hit me; no, not making me rethink about our Father, but more like making me want to find that answer that he's longing for. He told me about a story of his friend, whom I forgot to ask for the name of him.
HERE'S THE STORY: His friend and his friend's dad are the only two FEW devoted Christians that Chris admired. His friend read the word and also lived it; as well as his dad too. All his life, he'd pray to God about his dad, asking God to keep his dad's health in order (healthy). Then one day, they found out that his dad got cancer. Bummer, right? So right when he heard this, he prayed for 5 years to God asking Him to heal his dad. So in a nutshell, his dad still died from cancer. During this, he had to go to Mexico in his dad's place because his dad was in the hospital. Chris went to go visit him everyday for his friend and one day, his friend's dad said this to him: I'm not ready to die yet. I don't want to die yet. I can't let my son down. (meaning, he mustn't die since they've all been praying for 5 years. He and his dad are the only family members they have). It took Chris by surprise and just hit him really hard about this whole situation. So continuing, his dad died, right? Now, after this happened, his friend went downhill from then. He was sent to a foster home and since then, has been abused and all sorts of horrible unimaginable things happened to him. He totally lost faith in God and now he hates Him for not doing anything.
QUESTIONS CHRIS ASKED ME (that I can still remember):
1. How can you still keep faith in God when something like this happens to you?
2. Why didn't God do anything if He is so perfect and is so powerful?
3. Why do good people die from accidents and diseases while bad people die naturally (but I'm sure he does know that this doesn't happen all the time)?
4. Since God knows everything, from the day we're born, He knows the day we'll die. We're being punished by death, right? If we're suppose to live eternally with God, why did he already limit our lives with death? (in his words for this = killing us)
(I know there's more, but Anna just told me that he's in the process of explaining things to his friend so I'll update more on this later)

Chris says that the Bible contradicts itself; says he knows cause he read the Bible so many times already. I didn't get a chance to extend on this in the conversation I had with him, but I hope I get a chance to next time. He also said to me, "And don't say, 'I'm sure his dad is up there in Heaven watching over him' because that's a bunch of bull. If he was, he wouldn't let all that abuse come to his son down on earth like that where a gun is pointed at his head at gunpoint."
What he directly said just now to Anna to forward it to me: i based God off as a father, and if such a "loving father" is existent and his sons are going through pain, a real "Loving" father would do something about it before the two get hurt eternally.

Please pray for Him and his friend.

Jasmine.