Faith in God

I may be the first person to tell you this - I am not perfect. I never have been and never will be. And I'm not striving to be.

I just recently heard that someone stopped going to church because of the people. And that breaks my heart. It breaks my heart because that person just based their faith on people instead of God. When a faith is based on people instead, we will always come out disappointed. We will never meet someone who will ever be able to portray the perfectness of God. We will never know someone who is not a hypocrite. Even without God. What I mean by that, for example, is even a simple situtation with your toddler. When your cute little one year old goes up and hits their cousin, we pick up the one year old and smack their hand and tell them that hitting is bad. Did we not just do the same thing to them right back?

I cannot show you what it's like to be perfect. I cannot show you what it's like to love perfectly. I cannot show you what it's like to be unselfish. Seriously, this list goes on and on.

But I can show you what it's like to try and live a life for God. To be open to changing myself. To be humble when I've made mistakes. And apologize for my mistakes. And I can do this because I have a faith in God that surpasses people. I believe in a God that is full of forgiveness - no matter what you or I have done. And no matter how short or long it has taken us to come to Him to ask for that forgiveness - we will get it once we ask. There is no time limit with God.

Why do I live for God? Honestly, I can't say that there's one reason. I guess it starts with I believe in Him. And I believe that He sent His own son to die for me so that I can live eternally with Him. And every trial that I have go through, as hard as it is going through it, I know that I become a stronger person because of it. I learn more of who I am and who I was created by God to be. I feel a peace knowing that my life is not in my control. That no matter what comes my way, I can get through it when I depend on God. I like that.