Walking Away

Have you ever lost your faith in someone or something?

Losing your faith in someone is devastating. To have hope in someones abilities, future, and ambition only to watch it slip away or crumble is heartbreaking.

Some have hope in politicians. Others follow celebrities or athletes for guidance. And others look to scholars and intellectuals to point them in the right direction.

But sadly people will always let other people down. If you look to someone else for direction you will always be led astray eventually. If you follow a mere human whole heartedly you will eventually lose your faith in humanity because ultimately they will let you down.

If you’ve never experienced a loss of faith in someone, consider yourself blessed.

I was listening to an album today of an artist who has encouraged me for years through their music, and it hit me, I’m listening to their album when they were a follower of Christ. If I get their next album, I can’t say those same words because they have walked away.

That thought saddened me.

It saddens me to think that their life was so broken that a healing God seemed imaginary. It hurts me to think that the concept of walking away from ones faith isn’t obscure, but it happens all the time.

That people go to bed believing and wake up with disbelief.

What causes this chasmic shift? Is it a slow erosion like the mighty Colorado or is a magnum quake like on the San Andreas fault? Or is it both?

They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but civilizations have fallen in a day.

Your faith is your your home. Are you building walls or moats around it to keep your defenses up? Are you protecting it with guards and soldiers who are keeping eyes inside and out? Are you reenforcing the bricks with new insights?

Or are you an easy target to be slaughtered? Because it can take years to grow your faith, but it can take a pair of ruthless pruning shears to cut it all down to nothing.

If you’re not protecting yourself don’t be surprised if you wake up one day ready to walk away.

And that thought scares me for people.

I often tell people, “Don’t say that it can’t happen to you, because it can.” I think that is one of the biggest and best lies we tell ourselves. It’s as if we are saying we are immuned from the decay that other people experience. But we are not.

I am not invincible…but I know who is.

I am not unshakeable…but I know who is.

I am not unbreakable…but I know who is.

If we only use God when we “need” Him, we will never “need” Him because we will always think we can do it without Him. It’s a pride we humans have to think independence proves strength.

But I’m proud in saying I don’t have it all figured out. I’m boastful in saying that I need help. I’m unwavering in saying there are some days I’m clinging to my last thread.

But when God is that last thread, I’m not holding it….It’s holding me.

When you take your eyes off of the Light for a lesser light, you’ll start to go blind to your surroundings and eventually you’ll be left sitting in the dark wondering when the light disappeared.

Don’t let it disappear.

Stay focus on the Light.

Stay in tune with the One who will hum an unending melody.

Stay in tact with the One who holds everything together.

And if you start to lose faith…message me. No one needs to journey that road alone. We weren’t meant to go it alone.

May we encourage one other daily. May our faith grow stronger in the True One. May our bonds grow firmer with one another to help one another in the coming days.

Peace

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