Letter to the Editor

Failing our faith?
 
Letter to the Editor:
 
     Upon hearing on the news that belief in God has shrunk to 70 percent, I took a look at the attendance at our churches and the lack of dedication by some members who claim faith, but have totally abandoned attending and listening faithfully to what God’s Word says to them.
     They have forsaken what should be “their first love,” God the Father, who created them and gave them life; God the Son, who redeemed them from the sin begun by Adam but carried through all generations and getting worse each day; and God the Holy Spirit, who when we become God’s child through baptism, lives within us.
     It is a fact of life that if you don’t eat you starve to death. It is the same with faith. If you don’t take in any nourishment from God’s Word you aren’t going to grow, and hence you become cynical and blame God for everything bad that comes your way.
     Paradise was ruined by human beings and our world is becoming more corrupt; not because of what God has done, but what we have done! The atheists and agnostics do not want to believe God’s Word, but what book ever written has fulfilled prophecies written thousands of years ago like the Bible has?
     Yes, there is lots of violence recorded in the Bible. But there is also much love revealed throughout it in what Christ did for us, giving us forgiveness if we repent of our wicked ways and the final reward of Heaven through his sacrifice. Look at all the disasters that have happened in recent years. Are we wise enough to realize that most of them came about because of our own sin and rebellion, or also maybe see that God is using them to try to bring us back to Him?
     With a family’s children, sometimes tough love is the only way a child learns what real love is. Can we wake up and see the truth about ourselves? I hope so before it is too late.
Melba Muhlenbruch
Hampton

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