Bryce Carver
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think, I guess I think the religion thing first, like, I mean, you've got Muslims in Gaza. Now, if you go over in the middle East, almost all of them are raised Muslim. Like there's, if not every single family and they're devout and they're pretty hardcore in it.
Yes, extremely hard life. Probably a short life. Because what they're getting from the Muslim community is compassion, community, friendship. And so in their mind, they're losing all of that. So if you present Christianity to them, you have to offer them the very thing that they're losing, which is compassion, friendship in Jesus, community with other believers.
But there were Muslims, hundreds of Muslims in Gaza that had the same dream about Jesus Christ. And they all converted to Christianity. One dream. So I don't doubt that God can't move in these things. And I acknowledge I'm very blessed to have been raised in a country where you can believe whatever you want pretty much without any physical attacks or things like that.
And I understand I went to a Christian school, but I think I also have to acknowledge I was deeply aware of the hypocrisy that was going on around me. And it made me really bitter. And close people in my life that would tell me that they loved God.
And then I would watch very specific things going, going down that made me deeply hate whatever this God they're serving is, is a total hypocrite because they are doing the total opposite of what they're telling me to do. And I acknowledge that. Um, and I understand like, like something that I really wrestle with is I prayed and asked God to take away my anxiety and depression and he did.
And then I have friends that I have prayed for, for God to take away their anxiety and nothing happens. Um, And I don't understand why. Do I think God can heal everyone? Yes. Does he heal everyone? No. I don't know why, but I think the wisdom of God could be literally taking away someone's anxiety.
Or I do think the wisdom of God could be God giving doctors the correct wisdom to prescribe the right amount of anxiety medication to help cope people's anxiety. I think that's the wisdom of God too. And so there's this interesting part where Paul, he's like supposed to be a legend of Christianity. He writes about this thorn in his flesh. And it's basically this thing that he can't shake off.
It's not clarified if it was like a spiritual thing or if it was like a sin issue that he couldn't stop doing. And he's complaining about how there's this one thing in his life that he can't shake off and it's bothering him. But then at the very end of this passage, he says, but this thorn in my flesh, it keeps me humble and reliant on God. And so I can't speak to everyone's situation.
I can't say, well, just because God takes away this thing, well, God's keeping it there and this and that. I don't know, because then there's also these verses that say, you know, if you will seek me and find me, if you seek me with your whole heart, are people really crying out to God because they're just doing it to do it?
Or are people really crying out because their heart is hungry and desperate and things like that? Or,
maybe for people that are christian that are trying to follow god but they're asking god to take away something and it's not taken away maybe god's not taking it away because if god took that thing away they would stop going to god i don't know i don't know the circumstances so i can't give like a full answer on that and and i do recognize that i've very blessed and very fortunate to grow up in a society where i can choose and really follow what i believe and without repercussions um
But there are those instances where the Muslims in Gaza have dreams and things like that, or we chose to go to a Hindu festival, the Festival of the Chariots, where everyone there is Hindu, and we're the only Christians, and we're challenging Hindus on their beliefs. They probably weren't expecting any Christian to come up to them and talk to them.
You know, maybe they saw people with pitchforks and signs, but they probably weren't expecting someone to come up to them and have a respectful conversation and go, hey, why do you believe what you believe? And well, this is why I believe what I believe. And this is why I think my life has purpose and things like that and challenge them and pray for them and things like that.
And so I guess that's, You know, there's some things I just can't wrap my mind around and I don't have full answers to. But I mean, even in those hard times, like there's things in my life that I pray and ask God to take away and he hasn't taken away. And I don't know why. And it makes me angry and it makes me frustrated.
And there's times where my prayers are like, God, I'm freaking pissed right now. Some people would get so upset for me saying, oh, you're a Christian and you tell God that you're pissed right now. Absolutely, I do, because I'm a human being and I have emotions. But it's crazy how even when I'm frustrated and pissed, God wants me to tell him.
Even though he's all-knowing, the fact that I express to him that I'm frustrated or I'm happy or I'm sad in any moment when I pray, he loves it because it makes it intimate. It makes it personal. And I'm actually coming to him. There's this verse where it says, do not be anxious about anything, but with prayer and supplication.
Supplication is like literally asking God to do something specific about a situation. God, I'm frustrated about this right now. I need you to do something. God loves it when I tell him how I feel about it. And so I fully don't understand why he doesn't take things away all the time. But I love that he doesn't get mad at me when I'm mad about my situations or when I'm sad or when I'm happy.
He likes to know it all. And again, that's what I love. I don't think the Muslims would agree with being mad at God about something. They would say, well, you can't get mad at him. You just gotta let it be. I said, no. God likes it when you're mad. I'm a human being with feelings. You're a human being with feelings. And just because I'm mad doesn't mean I'm right about what I'm mad about.
But God likes the fact that I'm telling him how I feel.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think I totally understand how you feel that I could say, well, I think he has made it obvious. You know, we go back and forth on that. But I think that. Jesus Christ through creation, we can look at this house and say, well, it wasn't here yesterday, but it's here today. You'd be like, there's a maker.
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