If you were an all-knowing God,
And aware that harder and more dangerous times were ahead,
It would be an act of unkindness
To not prepare your people with progressive trials and hardship.
Kindness in Suffering
No Compromise
Less bad, is still not good
There can be no compromise in matters of conscience
The Unwanted Lord
We are all imperfect people, with imperfect conceptions of God. There are things that we want Him to be that He just isn’t, and things that we don’t want Him to be, that He just is.
Each of us must improve our conception of God, and at one point or another that will have to involve surrendering to a Lord we never knew and never wanted.
In other words, If God has never offended you, you have not yet met the true God.
Liking vs Choosing
Liking and Believing in God
Is not the same as
Choosing and Following God
Faith Tried
Everyone’s faith looks beautiful before it has been tried
But at some point, each must prove whether it is actually useful
Thus, all faiths must be strained, and many of them broken,
To find beauty that can also hold true
Unrealized Potential
Unspent things have no value
Dollars, thoughts, effort
They are only potential until they are given away
Life itself is only idleness
Until it is offered for something greater
It finds it value in being sacrificed
Moral Growth and Decline
If we think that people hundreds of years ago had morally despicable views, and that now we have a better view of the truth, we ought to consider why. What beliefs and values did our forefathers foster that led them to become more moral, leading to where we are now?
And if we are now prying those beliefs and values from the public square, if we are rejecting the faith of the very people who made the world a better place, what do we expect to happen to our morality in the next hundred years?
Laws of the Heart
The laws of the land may be important
But the laws of the heart even more so
Changing Behavior
Changing behavior
Without changing the heart
Is building new structure
On a crumbling foundation
Choose Your Conviction
People, as a general rule, don’t choose their beliefs
They give their core conviction to a single, ultimate Being
Or Philosophy
Or Cause
And then their beliefs are given to them by that source
So, choose your core conviction wisely
Spiritual Wanderings 