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Revelation 18-19

It seems like it was yesterday since I started the Bible, and tomorrow I will be finished with it! It's crazy! And although most people are just surprised that I managed such an accomplishment... I don't really consider it a major thing to accomplish.

I think that everyone should try and read the Bible! And if this is considered an accomplishment, it's truly one that gives back much more than I put into it. This has been one of the best years of my short life, because every single day I have a renewed sense of hope and understanding in the God that created me and it's AWESOME!

So, anyway. Enough venting for Carly... back to the devotion.

The treatments in today's reading were really vivid and insane. I suggest you it now with the BIBLE READER to the right of this post or at http://www.biblegateway.com/.

Did any of you think that the punishments were a little undeserving in today's reading? For the nonbelievers, that is? Sometimes I get a little confused and frustrated. Sometimes in the world I get the same feeling of confusion. ask "Why, God?" And honestly, it stinks sometimes... to be that clueless. I think that there are certain things we'll never understand. Sometimes we just have to have faith and trust that God is fair and just.


After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting:

“Hallelujah!
Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
for true and just are his judgments..."

Revelation 19:1-2

We won't always understand everything. But we don't have to! Keep faith in God even when things seem unfair, because this verse clearly states that He does provide for us and will be true and give us justice.

Peace out.

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Granny said…
It all boils down to trust and faith in God. We don't have to understand it all.
December 29, 2010 at 4:47 PM
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