QUOTE(alexseeker @ Dec 31 2006, 07:27 PM) [snapback]97347[/snapback]
This is so complicated

I have to prove myself to God? I didnt create me ,,,he did I guess.. So he can show me who he is if he is the father.... You can't expect that much from a child to follow father who is never there..
I guess you are the first person to ever seek God....it is not complicated...it starts like this
...."ONLY BELIEVE." The reason men are on earth is to give glory to God, to please God. Men are created in His image. No other creature can claim this...Yes you have to prove yourself to God...for one reason only...this life is a test and a proving ground of whom you will serve, for there are only two fathers. The life you live here is under close scrutiny by the spirit realm. You are being drawn out every day. The battle for your soul is fought in the spirit every day, although it was already won by Christ. It is fought even still, because there is no corporate salvation and every soul must walk the plank of faith and determine to give his individual will over to God in a simple child like trusting. To do less is to lose the race. There is a cloud of witnesses ...
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Heb 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Heb 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Heb 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
You are being invited into legitimacy with God...to be no more a bastard child but a full son....
"You can't expect that much from a child to follow father who is never there..." God declares He is ALWAYS "there." Many times over He declares it!
Quit listening to your soul and turn your ears towards God...in His word and by His chosen and redeemed...quit swallowing the bitter pill of in...sin...cerity.