Today I am going to be sharing an interesting conversation I had a week or so ago with a person who doesn't share my faith. For those of you that are reading for your first Faithful Friday, Welcome! I hope you enjoy these posts. Faithful Friday's are my way of sharing my thoughts about my Christian faith, struggles I have been facing, or personal experiences.
OK, let's get into today's topic. I'm sure some of you fellow Christian's have been asked this question and if you haven't, prepare yourself because it will come sooner or later!
The question: "How SURE are you that there is a God?"
Now before we get to what I said in response, I want to pause for a moment to prepare those of you that haven't been faced with this question. If someone is asking you this it is more than likely that:
1) They don't know God and are looking for answers
2) They do know Him and are having doubts about it
It could be a million other reasons but for the sake of keeping this post a reasonable length, we are sticking with these two reasons. This is your chance to share your faith. So don't get scared and blurt out "UHH, like 100% sure, DUH!" or something rude like that. Pause for a moment and take yourself back to the time when you didn't know God yourself. How would you want someone to answer you?
So what did I say? My first thought was "WOW! Really, Lord? You're making me answer this??" To be honest, I had an image in my head of Jesus resting His chin in His hand with a smirk on His face saying "YEP! So answer the question!"
Here goes nothin' - I dive in to the answer...
First, I repeated the question, because Miss America always does. haha! (and I was nervous so cut me some slack!)
Then I said, I am 100% sure that there is a God.
Them- How are you 100% sure?
Me- I'm 100% sure because I have a relationship with Him and I can feel His presence. Then I hit them with this awesome example! It's like love. You can't see love, you can't touch it, but you know it is there because you can feel it. It makes you feel a certain way on the inside, like the butterflies.
Them- Ok, that makes sense.
And that was the end of it! My approach to religion is this, I can't force you into having a relationship with God because we are each in charge of that. We decide when we are ready for it. We decide when we are willing to change. I think that when the time is right, you will know. I don't want to come off pushy or like I'm shoving Christianity down your throat. Instead, I will live my life the best I know how and hope that someone who doesn't know God will see something different in me and want that same thing in themselves.
I will wrap up here, friends. If you are asked questions about your faith, don't be afraid to answer them honestly. Just be sure that when you do, you're giving an answer that will keep them coming back for more. I hope you have a wonderful weekend! I'll see you back on Monday.
Until next time...
Xoxo,
Adela
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