#141of365 #FaithBites #FaithJourney<\/p>\n
What Do I (or any of us) Stand For?<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I was mowing the grass, listening to Spotify\u00a0as I usually do, and Some Nights by Fun came on. I haven’t listened to that song in a year or so. Every time I do, I’m reminding how beautiful and thought-provoking it is.<\/p>\n
\nSome nights, I stay up cashing in my bad luck
\nSome nights, I call it a draw
\nSome nights, I wish that my lips could build a castle
\nSome nights, I wish they’d just fall off
\nBut I still wake up, I still see your ghost
\nOh Lord, I’m still not sure what I stand for
\nWhat do I stand for?
\nWhat do I stand for?
\nMost nights, I don’t know anymore<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nLife is hard. This world is a crazy, messed up, place. We have demands on us all the time. We have people telling us God doesn’t exist. That faith is wrong. That religion is faulty. That those people want to kill us. That way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. That people get what they deserve. Then I’m over here like: Love God, Love People. It is as if I’m speaking an ancient dead language no one understands. Then someone does something sinful and says I’m a good Christian. Some nights, I just don’t know anymore. “Try twice as hard and I’m half as liked”. Powerful stuff. But faith, faith remains and grows.<\/p>\n
\n“But the Pharisees and the experts in the law\u00a0rejected God\u2019s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John” – Luke 7:30<\/a><\/p>\n
“In him we were also chosen,[a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0having been predestined\u00a0according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,” – Ephesians 1:11<\/a><\/p>\n
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