Q: Why am I here on Earth?

A: I am here on Earth to fulfill a predestined purpose for my life given to me by God, even though I have been given the choice and freedom to squander my time and do whatever I want within the limitations of both the law and science.

Q: What is the meaning of Life?

A: The meaning of life was answered by the wised man that ever lived. His name was King Solomon; ruler over Israel and Judea during a time of great peace and prosperity for his people. He found out the meaning of Life on Earth and recorded it in the book of Ecclesiastes. And it is best expressed in Chapter 3, verses 10-13.

“I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

This in essence is what it means to find meaning in Life and he concluded the book of Ecclesiastes saying this:

“Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”

Therefore the meaning of life is to find enjoyment in doing good things.

Q: Is God real and how do you know?

A: I know that God is real, because I have humbly expierenced tragadies in my life and expirencing unexpressible joy and peace that He has led me through. Through times of sorrow, pain and loneliness, God has shown Himself to be faithful and true in my life. He has given me joy after experiencing extreme sorrow; sorrow strong enough to easily lead someone to end their own life and God help me if He wouldn’t have been there for me the pain I was feeling would have been strong enough to leave me in a mental institution without the hope of recovery. God has brought me out of multiple devastating episodes of extreme attachment pain as I sometimes hysterically cried alone in my room until my very soul poured forth with bitter tears and anguish. Imagine crying yourself to sleep one night and then having a dream of being tossed into Hell with the feeling of never being able to escape. Imagine having the feeling of haunting loneliness, even after going to a party and dancing the night away, even getting drunk out of your mind or high on every drug imaginable and not being able to enjoy the company of others. I’ve felt this kind of entrapment, I’ve seen a vision of Hell and because I’ve never enjoyed the pleasures of being drunk or high, my feeling of pain only got that much stronger. I didn’t have anything thing to run to at that moment for enjoyment. I was alone, afraid, in desperate need of comfort and love and I even felt abandoned by God Himself… but surprisingly enough I haven’t taken my life. It’s unimaginable to say that I’m completely sane, but here I am again able to enjoy the company of my friends and family. And it was all the therapy I needed. To my surprise I had never really been abandoned through the times of pain that I had experienced and not only that, but I came to realise that I had the eternal hope of never being alone all along, because God had given me His word that He would never abandon me. In fact, I know God had carried my limp body through that storm I was facing. Even though I was alone and afraid God was using that experience in my life to develop my character and to give me an expierence that I could then share here on my blog. And God did this so that I could then share with all of you the hope that I have in a lovely relationship with Him. You see my life hasn’t been all bad. I’ve haven’t been hammered again and again with pain and sorrow, but I’ve also expireced very intimate and life giving expirences with the God of Earth and Heaven. You see that night when I had felt trapped in a vision of Hell, I hadn’t fallen alseep because the overwhelming pain I was feeling wouldn’t allow me the peace of sleep. I was smacked with the laughter of Satan in my mind, the nashing anger of Demon teeth as they stumbled around in the darkness and the cries of people that were hurting uterly and completely worse than I was. I don’t mean to scare you, but it was the worst night of my life, because I had felt abandoned by God without the hope of excaping from that vision. I had felt like I really had been tossed into the lake of burning sulfer and that I would have to stay there even after I had gone spiritually brain dead. But BEHOLD a LIGHT in the DARKNESS! The Holy Spirit that had dewlt within me all along had compassion on me and even after I had begun to abandon my faith in Christ as frustrated as I was with the situation God was putting me through, He comfoted me. I awoke from my vision and began to laugh uncontrolably as tears of joy streamed down my face… and then finnally Christ laid my weary soul onto a bed of soft grass and I fell asleep in the comfort of His arms. I’m beginning to tear up even now after posting this. The peace that I’ve come to know and love transends my own understanding. Before all this sorrow and pain in my life. Before dirifting away from my friends and family, I remember LOVE. I remember times in my life of great beauty and wonder, as God began to wue my heart to Him, closer and closer to the center of His GREAT UNCONTAINABLE & UNIMAGINABLE LOVE. As a small child I held out my hand to God and alowed Him to lead my heart, soul and mind into His intriging IMAGINATION. I remember the times I’ve spent with my youth group helping the homeless in Oklahoma, helping huricane victums in Texas, falling head over heals in Love with God, being overwhelmed by the power of the Holy Spirit, feeling a strong bond of friendship, fellowship and unity with people that love God as much or more than I do, standing strong and couragous ontop of a mountain in Colorado, looking out at the incredible beauty that God has made and leading my friends through mountains when I was given the chance to become a man of God. You see it’s almost impossible not to fall head over heals in Love with God when you’ve walked in my shoes and expierenced what I have, which leads me to my next BIG QUESION.      

Q: If God is real, then why hasn’t He shown Himself to me like He has to C GEHRING [the creator and author of this blog]?

A: You’ve lived your life. You’ve had choices to make. You’ve felt sorrow, anger, pain, love, comfort and laughter. You’re expirences are uniquely your own, but there’s one expirecne that sparetes me from the crowd of people that chase after money, fame and success. At the age of four, I made one choice that completly changed my life and removed me from the average life led by my fellow Americans. I did that silly thing that some people scoff at and call a lost cause. I did that foolish Christian thing to do and accepted Jesus as my “personal” Savior [As if the word personal made me that much more of a good little christian, even though that wasn't my attitude at all]. As a Christian, I began my life with a special faith the Holy Spirit had given to me, because I had recieved Him so early in my young life. I went through the same struggles normal christians do with their faith, but I trugged on in the dark holding the hand of Jesus the entire way, and even tough things caught my eyes at different times and I may have chased a butterfly or two off into the dark, I always turned back to Jesus becuase my parents and Sunday School teachers had taught me well. I couldn’t ever bring myself to find fault with God and I kept blindly beliving the songs I had sung as a small child [Jesus Loves me this I know, He Loves all the little children of the world, I aint no kin to a monkey and theres a fountain flowing deep and wide out there somewhere, Jesus will lead me to it].  I whistled a little tune in my head with la-leepop in mouth and walked along a path that I hoped and believed would eventually lead me to that great place in the sky with golden streets, rainbows and ginormous mansions. And I followed that path all the way to the shores of a lake I was baptized in. But, I didn’t stop there I followed that path with a new power over sin that I hadn’t yet realized I had. I kept at that trail of bread crumbs God had first lead me to even after my faith had diminished and turned into something that separates me further from even your average Christian. My faith turned to zeal; I’m a Zealot. The zeal God has given me has allowed me to continue to follow at the heels of my Heavenly Father. And as my faith began to mature, I found whatever favor I have from God by laying down my life as a sacrifice to both God and the people I love. In this God has proclaimed that there is no greater love than this; then to lay your life down for a friend. And I hope one day that I’ll be able to do just that. If only to have the humblest honor of suffering for Christ and laying my life down so that others might find the peace, hope and love that comes with having a relationship with God. But, let’s get into your life, how about I ask the BIG QUESTION and the MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION for you to answer, because maybe the answer to this question is that you just haven’t let Christ into your life to mold and shape it. Maybe you’ve run as far away from God as you possibly can, because it’s the only thing that makes sense in your life. Maybe you scoff at the idea of letting Jesus into your heart, because other christians have left you hurt and ashamed. Maybe you haven’t let Jesus wash away your sins and remove the scales from your eyes, so that you can see that even the best of christians and those that have hurt you are only a poor reflection of God’s Glory and Love. We christians aren’t perfect [yet] and we’re still trying to find our way to the center of God’s love. It might take some of us longer to get there than others and some of us may even lash out and only show you hatred, but in the end it will all be alright for those of us that are in Christ. And I leave you with one simple task; to answer my question very carefully, because it’s the single most important decision in your life that you could ever make.  

Q: What are your reasons for resisting Christ and His Holy Spirit all these years? I bet there’s not one that can keep you from the love of Christ if you don’t let it. You can lead a life that’s never too good to be true and you can have the same or more peace, hope and love than I do. All you have to do is give into Jesus the same way you do with the pleasures of your sins. Just say “Yes, Jesus; I’ll follow you. I’ll put my faith in your existence and I’ll believe with all of my heart that you really do love me and that You have a wonderful plan for my life. I’ll confess my sins to you for they are many and I’ll proclaim my faith in you to all the Earth if I have to, because I want to live a better life than C GEHR over here postin for me to hear, so that I can laugh and cheer with Jesus up in here. Word?”

But the A: has always been up to you.

     Have any Big Questions for me? Make a Comment. I’m NOT going to get into a religious or philosophical debate with anyone, but I will share the knowledge and hope that God has given me with anyone that wants some too. What say you? LoL

Well guys its all for the best, it may seem hard and like nothing good could come out of it but  Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  God knows what He’s doing and He has it all under control.

There are several examples in the Bible of God’s faithfulness in hard times: Joseph and Daniel are two of my favorites. Joseph was sold by his own brothers into slavery and Daniel was taken from home. Pretty bad situations both of them were thrust intototally different worlds. But both of them trusted in God with amazing faith, they couldnt see what good would come out of all of their troubles but they trusted in Him and He led them through it. Proverbs 3:5-6 is one of my favorite verses: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your was acknowledge Him and He will keep your paths straight” Our problems seem so big but compared to the “Big Picture” its nothing, keep breathing and praying, God is right there with His arms around you dusting you off and setting you back on your feet.

Change is hard but God will see you through it and you always have your brothers and sisters in Christ right behind you ready to catch you.

Deuteronomy 4:2
Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.

1 Timothy 1: 3-4
As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith.

1 Timothy 4: 15-17
Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Therefore you might want to pay close attention to what people are preaching at you these days, because not everyone understands their own conscience. God gave you a conscience to tag everything in your mind you think is wrong and then make you feel ashamed for it in hopes that you’ll do what is right. Everyone has one, but they’re not perfect as some people would lead you to believe. Your conscience is venerable of deception and sering. A classic example of this is telling you that if you feel ashamed for doing something that it’s automatically wrong, because God is convicting you that something is wrong. When in reality Right & Wrong as always been spelled Black & White in the Bible  and that what’s gray remains for you to decide for yourself whether it’s sinful for you or not. Keep in mind though not to do something that will cause someone to do something they think is wrong, because when you do it can sear they’re conscience.

1 Corinthians 8: 9-15

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

This is CGEHR wishing you a happy and healthy conscience.

2 Corinthians 4:1-2
Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. ²Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

Romans 2:14-16
(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

Christopher Johnson McCandless would put it like this:
“Happiness; Only Real When Shared.”
(Taken from the movie Into the Wild)
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Ecclesiastes 4: 7-12
There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
“and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 2: 24-27
A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Psalm 68: 3
But may the righteous be glad
and rejoice before God;
may they be happy and joyful.