Why do we lie to unbelievers?  Accept Jesus as your savior and everything will be perfect.  Your finances will be figured out, all of life’s problems will be erased.  We try and sell Jesus as our personal problem solver.  The problem is not everybody feels they need a personal problem solver.  My pastor used this analogy:  We are trying to get people to take a vaccine for a disease they don’t think they have.  Why don’t we stop making God into something cheap and show the world who he really is.

In another direction, all of life’s problems are not erased.  Christians get fatal diseases, we find cancer taking over our bodies, we get into car accidents, we lose our jobs and our houses.  There are times when life is ridiculously hard and that is OK.  A life free of strife was never promised to us.  But the one thing we should have in these situations many of us (including me) is inexplicable joy.  The world should see in us a joy that seemingly defy our situations because we have faith and are resting in the control of our God.

Again, hopefully there isn’t any blasphemy in here.