God is not Anonymous

Introduction             The Bible; for some the Bible is a place of solitude, a healing book, a book with answers, a reason for hope, for some the Bible is a weapon, and for others the Bible is simply a book with no significant value.  Regardless of how the Bible is used or revered, it is still a book and is considered a culmination of separate writings and remembrances of spoken traditions that span hundreds, even thousands of years.  In fact, the finished version of what was later known as the Bible – to include the Old Testament and the New Testament – took over four-hundred years to be completed.  Prior to the finalization and approval of the Christian Bible, the Old Testament was used for worship.  According to a time-line released by editor Harold Attridge et al, the beginning of biblical history pre-dates the Chalcolithic period of 4500 B.C.E. (Attridge, 2006, pp. xxxiv - xxxv) .  Nevertheless, wh...

For years I have struggled with the presence of God in my life.  It wasn't until the past few years that I finally 'got it'.  God has been moving people in and out of my life since I can remember.  My first my best friend, new friends, family, strangers and the list goes on.  God has been directing me too so that I would be in the appropriate place at the appropriate time and influence someone else path.  God uses us to help realize his plan... plain and simple.   However, it is my humble opinion that God doesn't use us every minute of every day instead he will create events in our lives meant to move us in one direction or another.  These events will be good or bad.  A flat tire, the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, or even a torrential downpour that causes use to pull to the side of the road for 10 minutes.  What ever the reason the cause is always the same... it happened because of God's plan.   I am not ...