God's Humor

So ya know how yesterday I was talking about how slow the first 3 days of this week went, well God showed me up today. And I know that it's not literally God showing me up or him joking, but when I look at my blog yesterday and what happened today, I can't help but grin a little bit. I talked about how I wanted people to hear me and to respond and this week was going a bit slow compared to last week...I now believe I said a bit too much. It is like God read my blog and said to himself "so Luke wants some activity huh...lets see what I can do." Today I had the most in dept, intellectual conversation I have had since I've been here. It lasted about an hour and a half with maybe 5 minutes of small talk before getting into spiritual talk. Our main goal of today was to show this short 7 minute film to people to see what they thought and what they thought each character meant. It is a good film and I enjoy it, but when we got on the streets...we soon found out that the DVD player we were supposed to use was dead. So, we decided to do what we had been doing and just talk to people. We met this guy named Matthew sitting on one of the ledges of the porticoes and begin talking. Before I know what's going on, I am talking deep spiritual stuff with this guy about God and the church and what to believe. Matthew did not believe in God. He didn't think that he needed a God to tell him what is right and wrong. But he believed in right and wrong and having morals and doing the right thing. He also didn't know why, if there was a God, why people fought wars in his name. I told him that first of all, that his right and wrongs can be found throughout the Bible as what God wants us to do/not do. The reason they are the same is because we, as humans, were created in Gods image, and that we have the mind of Christ. The war that he talked about I told him was not God's will, but the will of man. I told him that God is a loving God and that man is the one using the name "God" as a reason to fight, but in the end, it was for the success and strength of man. It wasn't, in any way, glorifying God. We then talked about Jesus and what he did on Earth, and how he makes the bridge between us and God. His response to this was like he hadn't heard this in a long time. We also talked about what happens after death and heaven and how I know exactly where I am going. We talked about the Bible and how God is abstract and pretty much any religious topic, we covered it. When it is all said and done, the thing that stuck out to me the most was the fact that, he knew more about my God than anyone I had talked to so far. It showed me that, even though, right now, he does not believe in God, he has been looking for something, or else he would not have had such in dept questions and answers. Most people I have talked say that their might be something higher, but Matthew knew about God and all the different views of God and descriptions of God. The only thing he didn't know about God was how to believe in him. Maybe he just happens to know a lot about God and the Bible. Maybe it was just a coincidence that we ran into him out of all the people on the streets. But I don't believe either. There was a reason he knew all of this and there is a reason we walked up to him. And if I have learned anything in my 20 years; I've learned that THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES. I am going to meet with him next week for lunch or coffee so please pray that God will work in his life and on his heart. Matthew 19:26. God Bless! Ciao