Another Perfect Stranger Page #6

He is reaching out for you.

That's the whole reason that He became a person.

Maybe if I actually sat down to dinner with Jesus, like

my mom said she did, then maybe I could believe, too.

Faith is lot easier, than you think, kiddo.

And we really don't need for Jesus

to show up at a dinner table.

But what you do need, is let it go, whatever

it is, which keeping you from trusting Him.

Like what?

You tell me!

You really want to know what is keeping me from

trusting God and wanting to make a connection with Him?

When I was 16 years-old,

I was date raped at a party.

What happened?

It was Homecoming...

After the game there was a

party at this kid's house.

One of the players - he was a senior -

asked me, if would go with him...

And was thrilled,

he even knew my name!

The music was really loud,

and he started drinking.

And before I knew it, he had pulled me

into one of the bedrooms upstairs.

There were so many people there, that

none of my friends even noticed I was gone.

The only person I've ever told it was Stephanie.

I made her swear not to tell anyone.

Mom and dad never found out.

They were on a cruise when it happened.

The guy did the same thing

to another girl 3 months later,

and she went to the police

and he got sent to jail.

After I was sure, I wasn't pregnant,

I just didn't think about it any more.

After a while I could almost pretend,

like it never happened.

So why don't you tell me:

How would I ever trust a God,

who let that happen to me?

Sarah, what happened to you is horrible.

And God hates it just as much as you do.

Then why didn't He stop it from happening?!

Tell me this:

Just how much of the world's

evil want you to stop right now?

How about, all of it?!

And then the world would be a good place, right?

Yeah.

No, it wouldn't...

In the grand scheme of things like this

would be just deckchairs of the Titanic.

I don't understand.

I know...

You can't begin to understand the big picture,

and how things have to happen in

the due course of time. God knows this.

This is the whole reason, He gave you faith.

Sarah, there is nothing I could say that

makes sense or take away your pain.

But I can tell you this:

God is at work.

Restoring people. Returning them to a safe

and loving relationship.

And I promise:

One day the Evil of the world

will be done away with,

and all what will be left is the Good.

What about the people that do the evil things?

The bad guys with be punished.

The Good will be rewarded.

All things will be reconciled.

I just don't understand why we have to wait.

Because when mankind turned his back on God,

it sent itself ridden into a world of evil.

Bringing people back is a slow,

person by person process.

And what about the people

who didn't ask to have bad things happen?

God knows about every horrible thing that happens,

and He knows what it does to people.

I doubt that... How could He know

everything from up there?

Or from wherever He sits...

Is this, what you really think?

That God distances Himself

from people's pain?

That's what it seems like!

Sarah...

When people rejected God,

it was incredible painful for Him.

Imagine watching your own children

falling into well of darkness.

If it was so painful for Him, then why

didn't He do something to save us?

He did everything, it could be done.

Do you remember the window-seat guy

from the first plane?

How could I forget...

He talked about that movie:

"The Passion of the Christ". You saw it, right?

It's been a while, but yeah.

The torture that Jesus endured

only makes sense, if you realize

that was God taking

the punishment of all people.

He wanted to be reunited with them so much,

that He was willing to die for them.

But even if that did happen,

what good did it do?

The world is still screwed up.

And it's been 2000 years!

Look it this way:

God isn't slow.

He is patient.

He is waiting. He is giving second chances,

so no one is left behind.

What you perceive as God is

dragging his feet, is actually: mercy.

Water?

So if this big reconnection happens,

then what?

The same thing you do in any relationship:

You talk to each other.

You get to know Him.

Talk with Him? You mean pray?

Pray is a part of it...

But anyone can pray.

Yeah, but not everyone

can hear Him talk back.

Like He supposedly did with my mom.

For anybody wanting a connection with God,

listening is the crucial part.

So once you become religious,

you can automatically hear God's voice?

Religious would be the opposite.

Religion is mostly an outward thing:

Do this! Don't do that!

Go there! Don't go there!

A person who can hear God's voice is someone,

who has been changed from the inside out.

Changed like how? Like a new attitude?

No! Like a whole new spirit.

God gives it to you, when you connect with Him,

because the old spirit wouldn't work.

It couldn't connect,

it couldn't hear His voice.

Are you talking about audible voices here?

He doesn't need that.

He has other ways...

Like what?

Like a small voice in your conscious.

Like His written word.

Remember that piece you read earlier?

What, that poem?

Right out from the Bible.

But I thought, you said,

your father wrote it.

God is my father.

Ok...

and that poem came from the bible...

Why so hard to believe?

Because I always thought

about the Bible as a rulebook.

Rulebook? Listen to this:

"I've made myself one spirit with you

I nourish, I cherish you

I gave myself up for you,

I lay down my life for you"

Does it sound as a rulebook to you?

No, it sounds more like a love letter.

You got it!

For people who can hear God's voice,

this is how He speaks to them through His Word.

That's how Jesus was when he was on Earth.

He was always listening to his Father's voice.

So real Christianity is just sitting

around all day and listening this stuff?

Not quite...

It's letting Him love

other people through you.

It's knowing, that you are forgiven.

It's knowing, that you are accepted.

No matter what, you always have

a special place in God's heart.

But what about the people who have

bad things happened to them?

When people - who have pain - connect with God,

they realize, there has never been a moment,

when He ever stopped loving them.

And they know, the day will come,

when He will personally wipe away every tear

and they will be never hurt again.

And when they're with God,

and they feel His enormous love,

the pain, they once felt, seems like nothing.

What makes it enormous?

Because it is perfect.

You know...

I don't know if I'm ready to commit

to anything like my parents have,

like my mom did 10 years ago...

But all the stuff we have been talking about,

what exactly do I do with all this?

Well, first, you have to make a decision:

Do you want to experience perfect love?

Tell me again, what is perfect love?

It's a love, that's even greater than

your parents have for you...

Greater, than you'll have for

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