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Finally, the site feels like it's beginning to expand. I'd like to point out that from any page in here, if you, the reader ever see the word "Author" underlined or "the Man Upstairs," then it's not talking about me, it's talking about God. So, without further delay, I'll let you get into some...
Tough thinking from the Author:

The lowdown on what's really important in life...

    Want to hear the straight truth? No lies? Good. This is how the truth
really sounds. Now, it may seem odd at first, but this is how the truth starts
off. Basically the truth is this: Genesis, chapter one, verse one says “In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
    That’s that. That’s the truth, and nothing else is really that important.
Things that are first tend to leave first impressions. This is first. Nothing
comes before it in the Bible, and nothing comes before it in importance.
Why? Because it’s the start of the entire book. There’s no prehistory that
explains how God came into existence. We don’t know that, and we really
don’t need to know that. People try to brush off God by asking “what was
there before God,” or can “God create rocks so big that He can’t move
them?” But the truth is this: it doesn’t matter if anything was there before
God or not. It doesn’t matter what God can create. What matters is God.
    Note where the word “God” comes in the sentance. It says: “In the
beginning God...” That means that God had been there for some time. It’s
like if I write this: “In the kitchen Jane...” How does that matter? Well, Jane
has to be in the kitchen first if this phrase is to work. Just like the beginning.
God has to be in the beginning first if this phrase “In the beginning God...” is
supposed to work. The emphasis belongs on God.
    Now, where does that lead the discussion?
    I was hoping you’d ask! Here’s what we get to when we put the emphasis
back on God, not only in the story of the creation but also in our lives. We
quit worrying about what science has to say and keep our focus on God. We
stop worrying about what we don’t understand and chalk it up to the
mysteries of God. Not that people shouldn’t explore the mysteries, but that
they are not as important as a full relationship with God is. Part of that
relationship is going to be neglected if we stay for too long dwelling on a
mystery that God has sent our way. He’s God. Having a few mysteries up
His sleeve is like a perk that comes with being God. He doesn’t really have
to answer the question, and He isn’t going to just leave us in the dark forever
either. But if we try to figure things out on our own, we aren’t focusing on
God.
    What I mean is this: God is the central point of the Bible. Not Satan. Not
ourselves. Not solving all the mysteries. That’s not what God promised to
us. He never said that we would figure out all the mysteries, and He never
said that we would have all the answers. People try to brush God off by
asking “why do bad things happen to good people?” The thing to this
question is not the answer, but what the question is trying to say. What it’s
saying is “why does God let bad things happen to good people?” Does it
really matter how come He lets bad things happen to good people? Really,
does it?
    I’m one to argue that it does not. That’s right. It doesn’t matter if God lets
everything happen to me, or if God lets everything happen to somebody else.
It’s not important. See, if I know God, whatever bad thing happens to me
isn’t going to get in the way of my desire to follow Him. I’ll plow right on
through it because God is what’s important to me, and not the problem. If I
get strong in faith, or if I get wisdom because of it, fine and dandy, but I
didn’t need those things.
    Why not? Because I know God. Why ask for anything else? Why try
to find out all the answers when you can get intotouch with the One who
knows all the questions? Why worry about all the bad things that happen in
the world when you know God. Even if God is the cause of every single
problem mankind has ever discovered, where does the emphasis belong?
    On God. The major point of life should be knowing God. The center of
every decision I make should be God. Even decisions about what I wear. Even
decisions about what I eat. Even decisions about who I hang out with. Why?
Because a God-centered person isn’t going to make decisions that hurt God.
Because a God-centered person isn’t going to wear suggestive or obscene
clothing. Because a God-centered person isn’t going to do drugs, or
deliberately hurt the body God gave them. Because a God-centered person
wants to know God, and wants his or her friends to come to know God.
    We could talk until our faces turn blue about how to be God-centered. We
could turn the world upside down in just a few years if everyone worked as
hard as they could at being God-centered. We could go out winning souls for
God by preaching the gospel and making everyone followers of the gospel,
followers of Jesus Christ and not of themselves. We have all we need in
God. We don’t need anything else from Him. In fact, we don’t need anything but
Him. God is so great and mighty and glorious that it’s awesome just to have
Him as the center of our lives. There’s so much out there in the world that
wants to say that a God-centered person is failing to get what they want out
of life. Some may even call some God-centered people failures in life. But
the fact is, I’d rather fail and know God than succeed without knowing him. Not
that God has to give me anything special for failing or coming back from
failure, because the glory is for God.
    So, who’s a good example of a God-centered person? Jesus. People might
say that he was a failure, but that’s not true. He died in shame, in the most
cruel and unusual punishment humans have ever invented. While most
criminals that got the Cross could last longer than Jesus, the Son of God died
in just six short hours. That’s less time than it takes to drive to Tennessee
from Ohio on a good day. There’s tons of things a person can do in six
hours, but Jesus, who was God and who was the Son of God at the same time
gave up his eternal power for this six-hour time, just so that he could die here
on Earth, at the hands of his creations. “Wow,” people might say, “God
really blew it there. Why didn’t he call on all of his angels to destroy the
world and set him free?”
    That’s one of the greatest mysteries we may ever have put into our minds
by God. He loved us enough that he could take it all with a stiff upper lip,
and even forgive us for doing to him what we did. Every one of us is
responsible, in some way, for the spectacle that happened almost two
thousand years ago. Every one of us is guilty, in some way, for that scene of
Jesus, nailed--Crucified--so that he could be executed in our place. But God
just quietly let it all happen. The flogging, the mocking, the beating, the
crown of thorns, the heavy wooden crossbeams that were lain on his bloodied
back. Quietly, he carried this pair of railroad ties up Golgotha, the place of
the skull. And the Son of God let himself be nailed to that thing. And the
Son of God let himself die on that thing, while everyone else mocked him.
    Whatever became of those people? The fact is, we don’t have a complete
account of what they may have gone on to. But the scene is centered on
Jesus, crucified for us, sacrificed for us, and dead for us. Because He loved
us beyond any of our belief--beyond any of our comprehension of what love
really is! Does it really matter what happened to those other people? No.
Not really. It’s an interesting question, a mystery that we will face. But the
story God gives us about just how much He loves us is much more important
than the circumstances surrounding the story. We don’t need to know the
small details, just the big picture. God loves us.
    God promises you that if you accept Him, and make Him the center of your
life, that you will be saved. A favorite Christian quote is John 3:16, which
says: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that
whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” So is
the question of evolution important? No. Is the theory of the Big Bang
important? No. What about human cloning? Nope. How about stringwarp
drives and hyperdrives, and KobalThi and all that jazz you would read in the
Union of Planetary Republics website? No. Not even that is important when
it is compared with the love of God.
    I'd be glad if you read my stories for fun. They’re entertainment. But when
you need something real, go to God. When you need help in life, go to God.
When you finally see that nothing else matters in life, go to God. Maybe one
day, I’ll write more to this article, or maybe not, but if I do, it isn’t because the
article matters, it’s because God matters. He matters enough for this page to
be here. I pray that He matters enough for you to want to get to know Him if
you don’t already know Him. I pray that He matters enough for you to want
to reaffirm your relationship with Him if it’s not all it could be. I pray that He
becomes your center of life, because that’s what matters most to Him.

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