Check the Facts!

I am so sick of people being misquoted or folk jumping to conclusions about what they think someone has said! They seem so convinced that someone has said something--or try to read into someone's mind what they are thinking. I have said and will probably say it until the day I die. CHECK YOUR FACTS!

Two things that aggravate me most in life is arrogance and assumptions. I think, more than anything else, these two character traits really are what make living in this world so challenging, to say the least. Both demonstrate a type of selfishness and self-centeredness that has no regard for others, really no respect and no acknowledgement of other people.

It may seem like I ramble some in these posts. Perhaps I do, at least a little. There is so much to say, and I am pretty certain, at some point the reader  will figure out most of what has me rambling so is the fact that I have a lot to say, possibly more than will fit into this space.

But for the most part, people seem to believe lies before they even listen to the truth.They already have their minds made up about what to think and what is true. Maybe I'm gullible or something, but  it seems that people are more apt to believe what they want to believe whether it's true or not. It must be that believing the truth may be harder than believing a lie.

It also seems that the world attempts to discredit the truth, be it religion, or even down to what we eat. The very thing we need is nourishment, even just to live. But I know for myself (due to some health challenges over the last couple of years) that while we need food even as mere sustenance, to be very honest, it is food that's killing us.

As a Christian person,  if I listen to what the world has to say, even my believing in God, and especially in Jesus Christ is foolishness. The world cannot seem to embrace the belief in miracles that Christians typically believe. It seems that the world does not embrace nor does it want to believe that which cannot be proven scientifically, and that which it seems to refuse to even try to understand.

The world wants us to believe that Jesus does not matter, that God is unimportant.The unbelieving part of the world wants us to believe that Jesus is just a myth or a fairytale. And even those of us who say we believe have to be very careful to demonstrate what we say we believe, that God is love, and that we are God's tangible, loving, agents in this world. Too many people say it, but it comes across as arrogant and self-serving. Don't just say it.