I Stopped Believing In God

Steve’s Starting Line: “You always have a choice: trust God or not. But herein lies the next challenge: Who is God and what have you come to believe about Him?”

Recently, our family has gone through some challenging times to say the least. I won’t share all the details in this email, but it was enough to turn things on their head, as the saying goes.

When is the last time life turned you on your head or lost you in the wilderness? In my therapy sessions over the last few weeks, I’ve been using the analogy that I was kidnapped and dropped in the middle of the wilderness — and I was on my own to find my way back.

Unfortunately, the only paths that seemed familiar were the ones I had already jumped off.

Bad Habit Trail, as I like to call it, was easy to identify and comforting to walk because it was the only path that felt normal.

Do you have a Bad Habit Trail?

What areas of your life have you carved out an easy, comfortable, yet not life-giving trail that just seems so hard to avoid when life turns you around?

I Started to Question: Do I Really Trust God?

Belief or Statement

Believing in God and saying you believe in God are two very different things. Saying you believe in God is as empty as trying to find Him only in times when you feel lost.

Really believing in God means you can see Him when life hits the fan. There were moments I could not see God at all, and others where I didn’t know who I was looking at — yet a few more where He was exactly who I thought He was.

Challenge! Stop Believing in God — Trust Him Instead

I urge you to start an honest conversation with yourself:Do you really trust God, or do you just say you believe in Him?

When life — and it will — turns you on your head or drops you in the wilderness, you’ll find out what you truly believe. Before that happens, level with yourself and move from “I believe in God” to “I am in a relationship with my Father, and I trust Him.”

Watch how God transforms when you begin.

Remember:You only have so many days on this earth.We take nothing with us when we die.Go all out. Take care of what’s been entrusted to you, and die trying to become all that God made you to be.

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