FAITH: Here's a primer of what will ultimately be critically important to each and every one of us, believer in God and non-believer alike. First, it is utter folly to believe that we intelligent beings, so wonderfully complex and free, were created by chance meeting of raw matter. We were directly created by God, the whole of humanity and each of us individually, because He loves us.
I've been asked by plenty of people, "Well, do you believe in evolution?" Of course, I do, the archeological evidence is abundantly present. God could have created humans directly out of "the dust of the earth," literally, or God could have evolved us from apes, also "the dust of the earth." That doesn't matter. What does matter is that somewhere along the line, God made intelligent beings, human beings, US, people who innately know that there is SOMEONE bigger than us, SOMEONE who made us and the whole of creation.
We can run from God's love, if we so choose, by ignoring it. We can purposely defy God's love by defiling ourselves with all the evil actions we can accomplish; God will still love us.
At the end of our lives, God will be just and judge us. God will then send us to heaven or hell, forever, FOREVER: what a sobering thought.
How do we want to LIVE, FOREVER? In God's love? In eternal damnation because of our purposeful evil choices?
We dare not put off "getting our act together" in this important matter! We know the fragility of human life - here today, gone tomorrow - accidents, strokes, heart attacks - young, old - we do not know when we will die and need to render an account for our lives. The wise person will get a grip, and start or continue on a quest to know God, and know him well, while still able to do so.
If we went to church as a child because our parents made us - or not - is of little consequence. What is important now is what we choose now and for the rest of our lives.
WE need a way to know God better and better each day, and to worship God. Everything else, in the end, is secondary to this.
Belonging to an organized religion is the easiest way to accomplish this. Studying your faith and living your faith is the sure way to heaven.
You have heard about God now, even if only in your heart. Do you want a childish, adolescent faith? Man up, or Woman up! Claim what you deserve: the FULLNESS of the faith!
My Lord, I love You with all my heart and thank you for making me in Your image and likeness. Help me spread Your love for us all to everyone I know and everyone who reads this. Joy! Joy!
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