Posted on 04/05/2010 10:21:41 AM PDT by Patriot1259
Someone might say to me, “You just believe in God because of the life you’ve had. If you’d had my life, it would’ve been a lot harder and maybe faith wouldn’t come so easy.” But my faith hasn’t come easily. I’ve struggled mightily for many years with questions, temptations, pain and loss, since inviting Jesus in twenty-two years ago. But He’s loved me the whole way more than I ever imagined possible before that day. And it’s those struggles which have fortified my faith. So why would another believe it wasn’t so?
Many of us, even Christians, have lead or are leading insulated lives. Not insulated from God or from the events of life necessarily, but rather from other people and their hearts. I’m confident people don’t set out to live this way; after all, no one pursues loneliness, yet some choose to live along the path that inevitably brings them there. They are understood to be antisocial or unfriendly, and the behavior becomes self-fulfilling.
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