Because of what the denominational, institutional churches have been teaching me. They taught their invented doctrines and human tradition, instead of the plain words of God.
All these years, I imagined many things that I thought God has told me. I thought the hardships that I have been through have meanings, or spiritual lessons to be learned from, and I thought I have learned something spiritual each time.
Now I learned I really haven’t learned as much as I imagined. I am going through multiple crises of faith right now, because suddenly, I realized the God that I have loved so much didn’t really talk to me the way I imagined He did, and He didn’t really do for me many of the things that I imagined He would do for me.
12 years of going to church, and I found out that I had been somewhat deceived and distracted by human doctrines and traditions, instead of believing the plain, obvious meaning of the words of God.
If you have read my previous journal entries, you know I have faced evil circumstances and string of negative experiences that I didn’t really think I deserved. Churchy people would say things like, “Oh! God didn’t promise the sky always blue!” “Whatever happens is God’s will!”
No, evil isn’t God’s will. It’s Satan’s will. For example, I noticed that many Christians are going through tragedies that the Bible says God would protect them from, such as premature death from murder or terminal diseases. What’s the deal here?
I believe they were like me. We assumed that if we have a relationship with God, then everything will be in God’s hands.
This is such a un-biblical belief. I think the correct belief is God wants us to fight. He wants us to use the Bible to remind Him of His promises, and certainly to remind Satan of the truth just like Jesus did (Luke 4:1-13).
Also, the correct thing to do is to command the evil circumstance to work for you instead of against you. I have put up with evil circumstance for so long and so many times before, because I didn’t know I could have rebuked it like Jesus did in Matthew 8:23-27.
Don’t ever imagine God has something secretive to teach you for allowing you to go through evil. The only lesson to be learned from confronting evil is to conquer it, turn it away, or cast it out with faith. The major thing you will develop from going through evil is faith, and it’s conquering faith. Faith that doesn’t produce good results isn’t faith. Most institutional churches don’t teach biblical faith, but they teach another kind of faith that doesn’t produce.
Don’t put up with misfortune, mediocrity, postponement, disease, poverty, failures, or whatever adversity and call them God’s will. God’s will is always to heal, prosper, liberate, promote, and all kind of other good things. God is good all the time.
If God already tells you His will in plain words of the Bible, don’t ever ask Him for more “revelation”, because He already revealed enough for you to understand it. If you don’t believe or obey it, then you are sinning. You start to make things up about God. You will over-spiritualize the scriptures and read into it meanings that it doesn’t have.
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