Isn’t it amazing how the world just comes into focus when you ask for and allow the Truth to enter your life?
-—Isn’t it amazing how the world just comes into focus when you ask for and allow the Truth to enter your life?——
Yes. The search was painful, but immeasurably worthwhile. I now have deep, unshakeable faith, because I’ve considered and rejected virtually everything else.
I understand that I should never fear truth, in any form, and that any apparent contradiction in the faith is just that, apparent. I also learned to live without contradiction.
“I ain’t hiding from nobody, nobody’s hiding from me.”
When you fully believe that Jesus is who He claimed to be, and you know that God is Goodness Itself, He can only will what is good for you, so there is no conceivable reason to disobey Him. In time, you find that, in obeying Him in good times and bad, you are truly happy, and no earthly circumstance shakes you. Surprise, surprise. Maybe God knows what He’s doing...
I am also understanding of and sympathetic toward confused youth.
Anyone honestly searching for the truth is a friend of Jesus. Even an honest, seeking, atheist.
I left out an important part of my journey.
My freshman year of college, I was majoring in a high-paying field (which wasn’t my calling) and had a beautiful girlfriend. I thought I had it made. I remember where I was when I said to myself, “I’m all set now, God. I’ll get back to you before I die.” The thought of it still gives me a chill. My life started to fall apart shortly thereafter.
The bottom fell out. Four years later I was in a black depression, but at my lowest, most hopeless point, I offered my most sincere prayer: “God, please help me!”
Looking back, that was the clear turning point in my life.
I share this story with the hope that it will benefit someone else.