Maybe you’re sitting here right now thinking to yourself, “this whole God thing is just not for me.” It’s just not wort it, it’s too much, and it’s not my kind of thing. Maybe you just aren't built for the Christian lifestyle?
There was a time that I didn’t want to be a Christian. I started to deny everything about God and I started to give up on Him. I had no faith in God, after all, what did He ever do for me, Right? So why should I do something for Him? I started to get frustrated just with the thought of God being real. This was because I didn’t feel Him like others have claimed to. God didn’t help me like others have claimed to be helped. He didn’t bring me peace like others have claimed to receive. So, I decided to stop, to stop following God. I said, “The heck with it, I want to live my own life, and I’m sick of following rules!” Furthermore if there was a God, if He was real; He would have helped me get rid of my problems, He would have helped me get a job, and He would have put peace in my life. Just as others have claimed they had. All these statements from people claiming that God had done something for them or that He had given them something. I didn’t see God doing these things for me. I just figured that they had good luck and I had horrible luck.
After a while of living an awful life, I remembered a few months prior; when I was following God, when I was going on the mission trips, when I was happy, and when I did have peace. These are the moments when God seemed so real, when God seemed to show Himself, when God seemed to be using me, when God had seemed to have given me peace in the hardest of times. So I had decided to give God another shot, because I was so desperate for peace. I cracked open my Bible and started reading. Page after page I couldn’t stop; it was like an addiction because of the peace that I felt and gained from reading the Bible. It seems really strange what a book can do, because after reading, I realized that God is still there. God is still real. God is still giving peace.
All this said, I have been there and back. With experiences I have found that life is easier when you are following God. Not because life will just hand you everything, because I still have problems in life, one being that I still don’t have a job. Yet, in all of this I do have peace to make it through and that is a lot more than it sounds.
If this is you, if you are questioning God and whether He exists or not, I challenge you to try reading the Bible because that’s what I did. It brought me so much peace. Specifically, I encourage you to read the books of Psalm and Matthew found in the Bible. Feel free to ask questions, but I assure you that you will have better luck finding your answers while reading.
Author: Brandon Webb
Editor: Jerade Bucher
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