A friend of mine told me a quote that is quite possibly the best thing I’ve heard in my life.  The quote was, “The only time I’ve ever doubted is those times when doubting allowed me to feel better about what I was involved in.”  My gosh.  Right on target.  I can’t explain how much that means to me.  I have never, ever, ever doubted in my life until the beginning of this year.  And do you want to know why?  Because I’m doing things that I shouldn’t be.  There are things in my life that are not right.  To some people they would be minor, but I know in my heart they aren’t.  We have morals.  We have instincts on what is right, what is wrong, and what the best thing to do in a situation is, but do we do it all the time?  Nope, definitely not.  I take the path that feels good, I won’t lie.  Sometimes I shove those morals, instincts, and God-given guidance aside and say, I’ll just do it, there won’t be a consequence.  I think I may believe in karma, or something very similar to it.  Because I know there have been times in my life where I did something that was good, and I just know I was rewarded from it.  It could have been God, it could have been another power, but I know it happened.  And the same goes for bad things that I’ve done, or said.

My friend hit it right on target with that quote.  People don’t want to believe, because they don’t want to believe that there are consequences for their actions, thoughts, and/or beliefs.  Take an agnostic for example; he had better hope there isn’t a God, because if he’s chosen that path, and there really is a God, he knows there may be a problem.  That’s why I find it funny, all these agnostic/atheists that are anti-God their whole life, that start praying when they have a near death experience.  Maybe it takes that to start believing for some people.  I have no idea, I’ve never been there, but I can only imagine.  If your life starts flashing before your eyes, many would have a change of heart.  Now that doesn’t go for me though.  I’m a Christian.  I believe in God 100% Now do I believe every single thing that protestants teach?  Not necessarily, but that isn’t what it’s all about.  This isn’t a competition over who’s right and who’s wrong.  It’s about a creator.  It’s about loving and worshiping God.  I honestly think that every single person on earth, at some point in their life, realizes that someone had to create the universe.  Someone had to invent it.  Someone had to design the complexity of a human eye, or our perfect universe.  Now I’ve seen things out of this world, that I know that don’t just happen by coincidence, and that helps me so much in believing in God.  But I’ll tell you what; I respect people that still believe that have never seen anything happen to them that wasn’t of this world.  That is so commendable in my opinion.  I think people have become too worried about whether or not they are right or wrong about things, and they have forgotten what we should be focused on, which is God, or as some prefer, “The Creator.” They’re so engrossed with pushing their opinion on others, the true focus has been lost.  That’s the issue.  People have problems with what others believe, and while wasting time worrying, they could have been praying/meditating or whatever form of worship he or she believes in.

And by the way, thanks so much to the friend that told me that quote.  That really opened my eyes.  You know who you are.