We must not lose that child-like mind, we must continue
to question the information that is given to us, and not just allow others to spoon
feed it to us with our eyes tightly closed, which in turn leaves our minds vulnerable
to attacks and misguidance.
This is ever so important when you are dealing with
people of faith, and not because they are all bad and/or looking to cause
problems in your life, but because you don’t want to be fooled by false
prophets and led astray.
We are not to take the whole ”sheep” metaphor literally,
God wants us to learn and evolve in our faith, he doesn’t want us to be
mindless sheep who just take everything that is told to them as gospel and
create their lives around it.
He wouldn’t have blessed us with a brain if he didn’t
want us to use it, to think for ourselves, to research and investigate what is
being told to us and not just accept it as fact.
I know it’s scary to question authority, especially if
it comes in the form of your pastor with a whole congregation backing them up,
but for your spiritual health and well-being it is something that totally needs
to be done, it is a necessity.
Don’t be afraid to ask why, to question what is being
told to you, because no matter who is preaching it or what book it’s written in
nothing is completely foolproof, especially when man is involved.
Your goal should not to be a spiritual zombie, someone who walks around without a thought in their head and a mentality only to blindly feed on the flesh that everyone else is eating.
You should strive to be much more, an individual who
thinks for themselves and truly understands what they are eating and more
importantly, why they are eating it.
Break free from the flock, educate yourself properly so
that you can better understand why things are the way they are and what it
means to truly be a man/woman of faith.
There’s nothing wrong with being a follower of one
religion or another, or not following any at all, just make sure that you are
doing so with open eyes and because of a decision that was made with an
educated mindset and not because someone else told you to.
I am not trying to get you to debunk your faith, to make
you doubt everything you’ve been taught and to make you cynical, but rather to
help you become stronger spiritually and to see things how they truly are and
not just as you were told to view them.
Be who you are, live your life as you feel fit, just
make sure you’re aware of why it is you’re taking the steps you’re taking,
because if you walk blindly through life you run the risk you seriously hurting
yourself and/or others around you.
Know why you’re doing it, don’t be afraid to speak up
and go against the grain, because even if man shuns you, God never will.
MJM
