Beginnings....start here

You don't know me or maybe you do if you're one of my friend's reading this, but this is for those that don't.

You may not know me, but we're not any different, sure we probably like different stuff, have different tastes in music and stuff like that. But theres one thing that we both have to go through that makes us the same, life and what it throws at us.

So let me introduce myself, my name is Keegan, I'm nineteen years old, I live in Louisiana, I work at a restaraunt, I eat, I sleep, I hang out with friends, and....oh yeah I'm an ex-atheist.

WAIT!!! Don't click that x, I know what you're thinking, "Oh great an atheist turned Christian who thinks he has the answers and is here to preach on the internet." I'm not gonna do that.

This blog is about my journey to find those answers through the one book that can give them. The Bible AKA God's Word; I am reading it Genesis-Revelations and I will post on this blog the stuff I have learned from it and how it has helped me in my life.

Now I won't only use this blog for that, but the majority of it will be for that purpose.

So after that introduction I'd like to start with what would be the actual blogging part...

One of the things most of us have trouble with is trusting God, so much bad stuff happens to us that we're just like "God doesn't care."

Something I learned in my reading of Genesis was that, these people who lived such harder lives then ours we're really trustworthy of God. Think about it, when Adam and Eve were banished from the garden they could of been like "Oh God banished us, I guess he doesn't love us, well lets not put our trust in him."

But they did trust him and they taught their kid's to trust in him as well; then we come to Noah, who lived in a world of so much sin that it made God grieved about his creation

Genesis 6:5-6

The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

There was so much sin and wickedness back then that it made God sad, imagine how the sins that the world is doing now is affecting him. And this is what he decided to do.

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth...

That's not the whole part, but that's what it's about; all the sinning made God sad and he decided just to end it.

Noah lived during this, and he was a righteous man, he trusted and walked with God and he lived in a world of so much sin, but he didn't let it affect him. If it did...well we probably wouldn't be here. He found favor in God's eye and was warned about the flood and giving instructions to build and ark and take his family and two of every animal.

Wow just wow, but Noah isn't the only person who's trust in God was tested and didn't let up, let's move to Abraham.

Abraham was tested the most severe way, he had to sacrifice his son, his own flesh and blood. He could of refused and turn his back on God, but no he got the supplies he needed and took his son up and was going to sacrifice him.

Luckily he didn't have to, because God saw that he was going to do it and because he now knew that Abraham fully feared him to not even withhold his son from him he intervened and stopped him.

The biggest thing I have learned from reading Genesis is that, I need to put my trust in God completely, theres gonna be hard times and extremely hard times, where I will be tested and tested again. But I mustn't worry about it, all I have to do is trust in my creator.