Simple Faith is the people like me. Maybe you grew up in a Christian home or have at least been living the "Christian life" for a long time...20+ years...you feel like you have the answer to just about everything. It's not necessarily an arrogant "look at me I have it all together" or "wow I'm so smart and have no questions about anything." It's just more of a "I've been doing this for so long, I know it works, and God will take care of everything."
This I've come to realize is dangerous.
Intellectual Faith...my husband, mother, and friend Jordan. The type of people that overanalyze, think deeply about pretty much everything, and are constantly trying to figure things out.
There's no "better" between the two.
But living your life one way or the other in my opinion is again, dangerous.
I believe God wants us to be able to cast all of our cares on him and not fret or worry about the things in this life. But I also know He desires that strong relationship with us where we can go to Him about anything...have those tough conversations that keep us thinking and sometimes keep us confused.
God wants our faith to be practical, intellectual, and motivational.
So what's my point? God has been challenging me on this. It's good to have the "Simple Faith" because it definitely gives me a very stable day to day life. But how deep am I really going in my relationship with my Creator?
I want it. I want whatever "it" is that God has for me. At this point in my life I feel like He is drawing me to start getting to know Him more than I ever have before. To not be "afraid" of the tough questions that other people may ask me. It's not that I don't have the questions myself, but I ignore them because I don't feel the need to know the answer. So once again, how deep is that allowing me to get? I think it's a wall that needs torn down.
I don't want to be someone people can't talk to because it seems like my life is perfect and things are always going great. I want to be REAL. IMPERFECT. <-- The grace of God makes me perfect in His eyes anyway, and that's truly the most important and the one we all need most.
I'll keep you updated on this journey. :)
5 comments:
wow i really enjoyed reading this post.
it was really deep.
it was so inspirational. i feel like in the eyes of God when we follow Jesus we are made perfect. God is so good.
this is just so amazing i keep reading it over and over it makes me think so hard. it's even hilarious. that is a wonderful blog post.
Drastic. That's the word I have been looking for. I love drastic.
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