Kidding Me

Chapter 16

   Fresh starts aren't widely available in life. Like, you can have done the worst things and never be able to put your life back together. Sometimes you don't feel like you deserve to and other, even if you did, you just don't know how.

   For me: all of the above applies.

   So the GEEK told us that the guys name was actually Job - they weren't even kidding, but it's pronounced joe-b.

   Anyway... This Bible guy was pretty rich with loads of sheep. Is he Welsh or something? Well whatever, he was wealthy and a good boy and said all his prays and rubbish. So then it gets weird because it says the pointy tails and red tridents are real? Crazy. Right?

   Right...?

   All the demons and devils and that, they said it's real.

   I guess I can't really say either way. If I was to say God's not real, that would mean I would have to know everything. Why has religion always been a thing? What need is there for a creator? How come humans have always wanted answers?

   Why have do we all want and needed a purpose? Do we have one?

   Can this, skinny blonde who can't possibly own a hairbrush, possibly give me an answer?

  "So listen up.

  "Back to Job, he went though some pretty bad stuff that, it tells us in chapter 1, God let the devil put in his life. Job lost all he owned including his children, in fires and such, all in one night! Then he had sever heath problems and even his wife lost faith in God. But Job, the entire time was like, God's been kind for most of the time we need to accept his bad times as well. So Job didn't blame God, but he did still have it really bad and started to think he was being punished but he couldn't think of anything he'd done wrong. He could never see on God's level it know that it was God testing him. 'cause then it turns out, in the end, he had way more than he had originally, so it was all good."

   So this Job kid sounds pike a mics guy and it was a rainbows in the end for him, but what about me. What about now?

  

   "So I choose a really depressing chapter mainly 'cause I like the pretty way he puts stuff. He makes even suicidal stuff sound alright - we all have those days don't we..."

   Your telling me.

   "Anyway, it's also because it's a great example of Job's faith. Even in his horrid position, Job still acknowledges God's perfection.

   "He says in this one bit:

    'Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.'"

    I'm confused...

   "Job's saying even if he were absolutely amazing, he could never reach the perfection levels of God."

   "This is what we need to know, none of us are perfect,"

   Some more than others...

   "But God knows we can't do his standard so he created an alternative way we can be okay with him."

   Why...

   "That's what the Jesus dude is for, God put Jesus down here to be with us and talk with us and show us  miraculous healing and stuff. But the important bit was his death. The Bible describes the entire worlds sins and wrong doin' being put on Jesus as he died. That's a lot, just think of all the wrong you've done this week alone. So as God is prefect and can't look on sin, he couldn't look at Jesus, his son, and that would have been the most painful bit of all for Jesus. His own father, not looking at his, separated. Torn from himself."

    Still confused ish...

   "So I know that's a lot to think of and imagine, but let me give you one last thing. Jesus died so all who admit the imperfection to can be forgiven: completely fresh start. God can look at you through Jesus so will bring you with him when we die.

   "What ever you've done, no matter how bad, God can figure you and help you and be with you and can I say it's the most amazing help ever! To have the maker if the universe listen to you, know your problems and not even joking he helps so much.

   "Not gonna lie, I was in a pretty bad place a few months ago, before I became a Christian. Drinking excessively, party every weekend, girls, pranks and a few drugs. Completely stopped, all in months. I'm so much happier now, an actual peace, one I haven't felt since childhood.

    "Call out to Jesus. Tell him your rubbishness and you acknowledge you need to be saved. Mean it and there's a party in heaven every time someone is saved.

   "The Lord loves you. Always."

    God, if your there, I'm a terrible person, I know. I know that. Save me Lord. Please. I can't offer anything, but I need serious help and your the only thing I can have. This guy says you love me - do you? I don't know Lord but please help me to be better and to do what you want and to... to love you God. Please please please please please. I'm so horrible and terrible and your perfect. Please please please save you child Lord.