The Truth About Faith I Missed for 20 Years
As a child growing up my faith was shaped purely by what I was told. I lacked the patience and maturity to read and understand the Bible for myself. My understanding growing up was simply that the death of Jesus allowed us to be forgiven for our sins. That if you asked God to forgive you, that you would go to heaven. It’s funny to look back at how simple my belief was, it honestly had little to no foundation. I didn’t have a relationship with God what I had was a way to cope with choices I’d made. I had a way to live the way I wanted, without consequences. Today I have intense emotional conversations with God through prayer. When I’m happy I express gratitude. When I’m angry, sad, or frustrated, I don’t question the situation, but I seek the reason. I ask what he’s teaching me in this moment, where he’s leading me in this situation. So it’s funny to think that for about 20 years of my life, most of my prayers consisted of ...