When I started this I was not really sure what I wanted to do. I had ideas opinions and pitches but I still was not really sure how to put what I wanted to do together. I do not think those doubts ever go away. I am more comfortable writing my opinions and observations and I was fortunate because I wrote about trivial fun stuff where no one can really argue about a person’s taste in music for example: all that person could say is I disagree what about this musician or band? But when it comes to politics religion and more importantly faith that is extremely diffcult to break down. The reason I do not think right and wrong are objective with faith I tried to not preach or give sermons I tried to write about faith by writing about it as a normal person would with all my vulnerabilities confusion and everything else that goes along with having faith. The biggest mistake people of faith make they put minsters on pedestals not recognizing that minsters are only human like everyone else they do not have some secret knowledge and their prayers do not get their faster than anyone else’s. The only difference between people that go into ministry feel that they have a calling to go into the ministry. My main point about Christianity there is a difference between religion and having Jesus Christ in your life. People get confused when people refer to a relationship with Jesus Christ all that means to me is inviting the holy spirit into your heart. I really try to reflect a lot on the things that are the most important it is sometimes diffcult to do that with all the noise and a lot of life is noise I really value silence and reflection. For example: when someone says on social media I like nice weather and someone will get offended and write I hope you get "ass cancer and die". I wonder what is wrong with us? That is what we should be reflecting I am not a fan of social media I am a big 1st amendment guy but I really think all social media does is bring the absolute worst in people. I think there is a ton of distractions in this world and what I mean by that are the distractions of social media and think about how we are now as: a so called society all social media does is pass judgement it is all judgement! For example: is this person a racist or an anti semt? that is all it is daily. People get so caught up in judging everything everyone does and mental health experts are wondering what is different why is there so much anxiety out there with the youth? It is all of the judgmental society where everyone is scared to say anything to anyone because there are so petrified of the judgement and backlash they will receive. Keep this in mind: also mental health experts society did not have social media and smart phones in the past. I am not putting all the blame on this new technology because they said the same thing about television and radio but the difference: they did not have access to it all the time. I am not suggesting to get rid of distractions and escapes because everyone needs fun and an escape otherwise they will go insane but what I am suggesting is to keep everything in prospective and to realize we are not living forever and to realize how precarious life is in other words: keep in mind the big picture for example: if a family member gets ill everything else is not so important anymore. Let me try to explain this in context: DR. David Jeremiah said something similar to this in one of his sermons to what I am about to write and hopefully by writing this I will understand this more because I am trying to make it make sense and I hope to find it again. That if we are Christians, we are not of this world we are foreigners in a foreign country that is why the world and where it is going makes less and less sense all the time because Christians were not built for this world Christans were built for heaven but that does not mean we should abandon this world but Christans should not conform to this world. It has nothing to do with being young or old it has to do with heaven being our eternal home. For example: I have heard an older person say I am glad that I am old because this world makes no sense to me it makes no sense to ether. That is just a fact. In the book of Ecclesiastes Solomon who is the wised person who ever lived and his whole goal in Ecclesiastes is to find the meaning of life but he comes to the realization that with out God life has no absolute meaning. Dennis Prager puts it a couple of different ways "if there is no God life is basically a joke we are here for minority of time and then we die". Or Dennis puts it this way without God there is no wisdom". I think this is one of the most important aspects that MR. Prager has stated "knowing the consequences of not believing in God is more important then just believing in God". Or to sort of put a secular spin on this which I did not think I would do the importance of knowing the consequences of not leading a religious life.
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