This is supposed to be a faith
(or lack of faith) journey, so I decided that I should probably pick up my Bible instead of having my little pity party. Also, I ordered that sermon series,
Hope in Hard Times today. I'm not sure how long it will take to arrive, but a funny thing happened recently.
Hope in Hard Times is a study on
1 Peter. Years
(I mean YEARS) ago, I was a
Precept Upon Precept leader, and I started an In-and-Out study with a group of teens on . . .
1 Peter. They weren't quite ready for the
inductive study that I planned to use, so we chose something different. But I still have the materials--in fact, they practically jumped into my hands when I was taking my Christmas ornaments out to the garage.
1 Peter. So I grabbed the study materials and brought them in the house . . . and I grabbed my Bible.
There was a pencil stuck between the pages with this scripture underlined:
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:37
Above that I had scribbled "
More than conquerors!"
But before my underlined passage, it reads as follows:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." Romans 35-36
It looks like I had faith back then . . . well, at least I had
hope. That was when I felt close to God--
I hope I can feel that closeness again.
I appreciate your transparency! I became a believer, after several years of playing the game, through an PUP study on I John at Precept's Boot Camp. What happened to make you question your faith so much?
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