I believe that questioning is necessary. I believe that things should be explored and not blindly accepted. I am learning that blind acceptance produces shallow results. If I don't spend time dissecting, wrestling, understanding, knowing, doubting, then I have not spent enough time with my subject. "Always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you" - 1 Peter 3:15. I want to believe something because it is in my heart, not because it is what I have been fed. I know that this requires perseverance and sometimes may produce frustrated results, but I know the truth that God promises me, promises us. He will never leave me nor forsake me. He is always present. He is capable of handling my darkest questions and my angry doubt. I recently listened to a sermon by J.D. Greear, pastor of Summit Church, and in his sermon he says that only through pain and questioning will we come to know that God is infinitely more glorious than our pain and questioning. I want to crave time with God. I want to offer Him my passionate, grateful, and undeserving heart. I truly believe that the deepest faith in God will be shaped by the darkest parts. I pray that we will believe what we believe with a passion so rooted that it cannot be moved. After all, He offered us Himself and desired nothing in return.
"I do not have to know why everything happens, since I know God is good, He loves me, and life on earth is not the whole story" - Rick Warren
"I do not have to know why everything happens, since I know God is good, He loves me, and life on earth is not the whole story" - Rick Warren