I've wanted to do this for a while, you know, share my meditations with as many care to listen but I've been dragging my feet not unlike Casting Crowns' song Here I Go Again. Some blogs have encouraged me to start, kaycee for example and garageboy too. Anyway, feet dragging is over let me jump right in...
The other day, I was reading Psalm 149:2,
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The rest of the chapter goes on along the same lines about how we should be glad in God, rejoice in him and so on. It causes me to wonder: Why? Why should we be glad in God when the proof of his existence in the lives of some (myself excluded) is, as far as they are concerned, non-existent. And I am pointed back to virtues without which a Christian’s belief would be tossed to and fro by every wind of misfortune: Grace and Faith. We have to believe (without necessarily seeing) that God is good, unchanging and unconditionally loves us, etc. That is faith. And what makes us believe that even when one is hungry, jobless, ill, has lost loved ones is Grace cos we are still humans and are quick to disbelieve the love of a God once the luxuries that we once assumed as proof of his love are gone. It’s the grace that keeps us believing.
This whole thing about grace and faith then led me to ask myself what my Christianity was founded on. Was it founded on the fact that I have a great family, that I have quick understanding, that most of my needs are provided? Or is it founded on Grace and Faith that are oblivious of my current physical circumstances? What’s yours founded on?
