No one has to tell this young boy that something is on his line. He has not yet seen it and cannot describe it but from the look on his face, we know he is engaging in mind, body, and spirit while anxiously awaiting to find out.
We begin our earthly life codependent on parents and caretakers for survival. They are preparing us for the day when we reach adulthood and becoming accountable for our own choices in life.
When I’ve ask adults, “How did you come to believe in a God?” they most often reply, “Its what my momma and daddy taught me.” Yes, we are to be most grateful for their guidance but in regards to our own eternal salvation, we are not judged on someone else’s account or the standard in which they lived their lives.
Authentic and mature spirituality requires us to leave our childhood faith to claim personal ownership and conviction to our individual response to the question; by what faith and reason have I come to believe in a Loving God?
The question begs continual contemplation and if fruitful will lead to continual conversion throughout all phases of one’s life. To do otherwise is to be content with a thought-less life journey in “practical atheism.”
By what faith and reason are you convicted that there is a Loving God?
