O' TO HAVE THE FAITH OF A CHILD

O' to have the faith of a child. Imagine how your life would be.

As a child I had no question if God exists or not. There was never any battling of logic or science in my mind. I knew that He exists and if you asked me, I would tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that He indeed does. I cried when I learned that Jesus was murdered for the sole objective that my soul might be saved through him by Gods Grace. I would tell stories of Heaven in excitement. I would think of all the many ways that I loved Him and wondered how He could love me so much when I had never met Him. I followed with-out any doubting.

I grew older in this world however. My eyes, mind, soul and heart were polluted and hardened by the things of the devil. Death started becoming a very scary and real thing. Murder, sexual immorality, hate and greed are some things my mind was subjected to through society. Logic and science set out to explain the unexplainable to me. Embarrassment started setting in over my belief. Satan had gotten in and I started trying to make God a mathematical formula, which is simply impossible. My heart lost it's eyes for His Glory and I started to question everything. My thought was of what I could do on my own, not what I could only do through Him (Which is everything good).

This was my deluding. However, by His Glory and Grace, He revealed Himself once again to me and condemned my foolishness. This has only happened to me because of His Grace. Nothing that I have done brought me back to Him.

This I have come to realize. There is simply no way to make God logical or mathematical. That is like me expecting my morning pancakes to understand me. The most foolish thing is that I had always believed in creation, never once did I play with the thought of evolution and theories of such, yet I lost faith that something way outside of our understanding and logic could have created this amazing universe that we live in. Only through our faith that is given to us by Gods Grace can we be saved and given mercy. The devil will do his best to sway our minds and thoughts from God and towards the fleeting and sinful joy of our world. I am challenging myself to always search for joy through God, and always remember the faith I had as a child before becoming a more deluded and foolish person.

"Truly I say unto you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter at all" Luke 18:17

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:8-9