Vendor Writing: John H.

Do You Know God?

BY JOHN H., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

I remember a while back when before I started with The Contributor, I had a friend who sold the paper, I want say who actually introduced me to the paper, but he had an alcohol problem. I asked him one day I sat with him while he sell, “Why you have to have that drink?” He answered, “I been doing it for years.” And I replied, “you shouldn’t do it on the job.” After days passed by he slowed down. I showed him in God’s word where too much drinking was a sin. I continued to sit with him for a couple more weeks and he stopped drinking completely. I guess the point I’m making is we have to be an aid to our brothers and sisters. Show real love. “If you hurt, I hurt.” That’s the kinna love we should have for one another.

Ya see, it was out of love that God come to this Earth in the form of mankind to show the love he had for all of us humans. He saw at the rate humans was going, somehow there had to be an example shown. Plus, a way we could be closer. We could talk and repent to him personally. We don’t have to have a priest to go to him and repent for us.

I guess the question is still, do we know God? I look at the world we live in, the schools, especially the private schools here in Nashville, sell right in front of one, they have God in their school, at least they pretend, but they do know God because they have no love for their neighbor. These are God’s words from 1 John 2-4 chapters. He said, if we didn’t love our neighbors we didn’t know him. Because God is love.

God’s word is sometimes used as a front in school, but it’s not in the people’s heart. See, I’m explaining this to you before you die and try to explain to God how and why you lived as you did here on earth, before he send you to a place you don’t wanna be for eternity. He gave you a tool. Use it. Stop following the world. Get to know God. Live it like you know him. Because if you don’t know him, how can you spend eternity with him?