What do our questions have to do with the life of faith?
God has created all of us in God’s image—in the beginning we were created by God and declared “good”. In this journey of faith we are called to use the gifts of our creation to seek and honor God: with all of our heart, all of our soul, and all of our mind.
Sometimes we can become too engrossed in the mind part of pursuing God. Try as we might, we cannot think our way to God. God is so far beyond our grasp that it would be idolatrous to believe that our intellect would be able to pin down God. Indeed, our relationship with God is largely dependent upon elements of faith.
However, so much good can come from the struggles of faith. We are all blessed with the incredible ability to think and reason. I strongly believe that challenges to our faith are also gifts of God. If everything was easy then how would we ever grow? We are constantly being molded to become more mature followers of God and Christ. Challenges to faith, doubts within faith, all of these are merely further steps toward a more mature, more whole relationship with God.
Please, do not abandon the questions that you have about God! Embrace these challenges as signs of God working in your life and remind yourself that God is always guiding you toward maturity. Our faith is a gift that allows us to be closer to God when the challenges of intellect overwhelm. But also, our mind and our intellectual struggles are gifts that bring us into a stronger relationship with God.
God has created all of us in God’s image—in the beginning we were created by God and declared “good”. In this journey of faith we are called to use the gifts of our creation to seek and honor God: with all of our heart, all of our soul, and all of our mind.
Sometimes we can become too engrossed in the mind part of pursuing God. Try as we might, we cannot think our way to God. God is so far beyond our grasp that it would be idolatrous to believe that our intellect would be able to pin down God. Indeed, our relationship with God is largely dependent upon elements of faith.
However, so much good can come from the struggles of faith. We are all blessed with the incredible ability to think and reason. I strongly believe that challenges to our faith are also gifts of God. If everything was easy then how would we ever grow? We are constantly being molded to become more mature followers of God and Christ. Challenges to faith, doubts within faith, all of these are merely further steps toward a more mature, more whole relationship with God.
Please, do not abandon the questions that you have about God! Embrace these challenges as signs of God working in your life and remind yourself that God is always guiding you toward maturity. Our faith is a gift that allows us to be closer to God when the challenges of intellect overwhelm. But also, our mind and our intellectual struggles are gifts that bring us into a stronger relationship with God.
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