Doing Something Great

Great things define legacy, legacies define memories, memories defines history, and history defines the future. Everyone wants to do something great, the difference is the motive, the attitude behind the desire. Great things never come easy, they are never simple, just as doing the right thing is never easy. Sometimes the greatest things we will ever do will be the most complex tasks we encounter, sometimes the hardest decisions we make, will be the most right decisions we will ever make. In writing things like this it is not an easy thing to not come across as a bible beater or "prude." However, the only way to tell the truth is to tell it strait forward, and yes, many times it will be laced and engraved with personal bias and opinions, but the important thing is being able to pick through that personal mark and find the real, hardcore stuff. When breaking down the bible it has to be looked at as a history book, I can't sit here and provide you with tangible facts about God that you can see, the bible is a history book of faith. But when you look at it from that view, you realize that it is the foundation for Christianity, and that at some point someone was faced with the same choice that you are faced with now, to believe, or not to believe. The bible specifically outlines many examples where those individuals made different decisions, and it provides the consequences for those choices. For me its just been something that I have always believed, my trust in God has been something that has just always been there, but my faith, however, has not. I wish that I could put all of this in a way that you could understand, but I know I won't, I just hope that in some way you are able to decipher this into something that is halfway understandable. As a Christian I never really imagined or took into account what it would be like for God the Father to watch his son be beaten, mocked, and crucified. It never crossed my mind that there was another way to view the crucifixion of Christ...But there is, through God's eyes.