About Faith - Part II (Everything has a Purpose)

(Caros leitores, esta postagem é em inglês para que meus amigos estrangeiros possam ler algo aqui também. Esta mensagem eu escrevi há muito tempo na Inglaterra prum amigo de um amigo que costumava me escrever pra falar de fé e assuntos relacionados. Lembrei desta mensagem e resolvi postá-la. Esta é a segunda parte do e-mail. Se você quer ler o início, vá para a mensagem anterior).

Hey guys, after a long time, here I am with a post written in English. Actually, it is an e-mail I wrote to a friend's friend some time ago. We used to talk about faith - he had some doubts and wanted to know why I was so sure and strong about my faith. Hopefully, it will be interesting for you to read and think about. Leave your comment, if you like. This is the second part, so if you want to read from the beginning, this is the first part!

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Everything has a purpose – I love this phrase! There is Someone else, Someone all powerful - the Almighty God and He was so kind that He left a special book to guide our lives. When an engineer makes a new product, he also writes a manual, because we have to know how to use the product to not spoil or damage it. God made the same for us, He created us and He wrote a manual for us to know how we should live our lives to not damage ourselves. I love it!  

Christians have interpreted and shared the Bible in a wrong way and this one of the reasons why some people don’t believe on it! I could write to you about Big Bang, the Revelation Book, the Creatiib, whatever! But for me, it seems like Someone is controlling everything and looking after everyone. If bad things happen, that is not God’s guilt (this is a subject for another very long text).

Unfortunately, many teenagers or 20’s (like us) don’t invest their time at thinking about it all and they just live the life. I don’t! I deeply live the life knowing that my life has a meaning. You will understand what I’m saying next. Our friends are constantly trying to find ‘something’, but they don’t know what is ‘the something’… Many people go to sleep and feel something ‘empty’… They try to fill the emptiness by having lots of sex with different people; seeking power, fame, money; drinking a lot, smoking, taking drugs… That is so stupid! True peace, joy and love we find only in God! There is not another way!  

Don’t laugh on me, but I’ve never tried a cigarette and any illegal drug! I’ve never been drunk! Urgh! I don’t need it! If I have a problem, I have to face it and not try to escape by taking drugs. If I want to have fun, I don’t need to be high. I want to be 100% conscious and sober to enjoy! All these stuff damage our bodies and kill our souls little by little. I agree about “Carpe Diem”, but I would modify this saying - I prefer “Carpe Diem wisely”!

Well, I think everyone should take a time to think about their lives. Spend some time thinking about: what have you done to yourself? What have you done to be remembered by? Would you say to your little brothers and sisters (if you had them) to do the same things you do? Some people say that the meaning of life is to have people who admire and try to follow you by the good you've done… The things you do now have consequences in the future then, how do you guess is going to be your future? What are the purposes of your life?

I like saying to my friends phrases like this: Move on wisely; take it easy; think about it before you do; everyone is made by their own nice details, which ones are yours?; do you know what you really want for life? And stuff like that… hehehe…

"Friend", every new minute in your life is an opportunity to start again, to start right! I saw some pics of you, some messages from your friends on FB, and I can see you are a very nice guy, then I know God has great plans to you! Try to discover which ones!

I hope I got to explain what I think… Please, forgive me! I know it was too long!

Have a nice week!

X

Paula

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Here are some Bible verses I like.

BIBLE VERSES

"And Jesus said unto them: If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you." ~Romans 1:17~

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... " ~1 John 4:18~

"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." ~1 John 3:11~

"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." ~Luke 6:37~

"Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do ..." ~Luke 23:34~

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. ~Philippians 4:13

"With God all things are possible." ~Matthew 19:26