Lovin' Life

Doubt is a destroyer of faith. Doubt is a cause of fear. “Faith and fear cannot coexist, one gives way to the other” (Kevin W. Person Ensign May 2009, 40). When we let faith give way to fear and doubt we are left feeling inadequate and alone. In the world we live in today we see a lot of non belief in God. People have said that God cannot exist because bad things happen to us. Some people believe that if you cannot see, hear, taste, feel, or smell something it does not exist. It is not by the five sences that we can know God, it takes faith. Faith is “a hope for things which are not seen which are true” (Joel 3: 16). It can be hard to have faith because it is a hope and not a sure knowledge.
Faith takes work. A muscle in you body needs to be worked everyday in order for it to stay strong. That muscle cannot be cushion or it will become week. Faith is the same way. If we are not constantly working on our faith we will loose it and we will fall into Satan’s temptations. The question arises “how do I build my faith?” The answer comes in “primary answer” form. Pray and read your scriptures. While this may seem juvenile, we are reminded of the scripture “by small and simple things are great things brought to pass” (Alma 37:6). There is a saying that says “if you want to talk to God pray, if you want God to talk to you read your scriptures.” Once we obtain that faith we need to work at it every day to keep it in our lives.
There are so many evidences of God! Faith is hard, but faith can lead to knowledge. If we work hard to obtain it and keep the faith once we have found it, our lives will be blessed. God does love and care about us and he is just waiting on our faith to come to him make us whole.