Do you like the liberty to choose the practice of your faith? Do you exercise it carefully, in the faith tradition you choose and the denomination and church within that tradition? Do you see this as being your choice? Does your history of liberty make it hard for you to address the question of whether you chose me or were chosen by me? This is something that could be argued either way from the scriptures. What is your perception of the practice of your faith on a daily basis? Are you choosing it, making the path as you walk it, or are you being led by a power greater than yourself?

Answer: When God speaks to us, through two-way journaling or any other way, He is offering us His potential blessing for our lives which we can receive if we embrace it, believe, speak and wait patiently for it, while following His instructions. It seems that the biggest battle we all fight is that these rhema words get attacked through the reasoning of our minds. The accuser comes through with the thought, "Did God really say...?" So when reason attacks faith, what am I to do? Which is to be allowed to rule in my heart? What does the Bible declare we receive through faith? What does the Bible declare we receive through reason? Let's see...

Faith is acting like it is so

When it doesn’t appear to be so

So that it will be so

Because it is so

(Mk. 11:22,23)

Everyone ages at the same rate so those who do not meet an early demise go through all the stages of life. The passage of time will turn you into an old person, but does everyone become an elder? In some churches this is a conferred title and it is an office recognized in the Bible. The term implies that it is not available to the young, but is it acquired automatically by the passage of time? What do you expect from a true elder? Have you met people who regardless of their age or conferred title manifest wisdom just by their presence? These are wisdom keepers. Do you want to be one?

Are you familiar with the idea of axioms? These are principles that are so basic and central to your concept of reality that they are not really open to scrutiny and proof. Everyone has a set of axioms and there is not universal agreement about them. Yet they form your view of the world. Could this be why there are deep-seated and irreconcilable differences between people, and neither can comprehend the position of the other? How do you deal with people with whom you have such profound disagreements? What are your own axioms and how do they help you address these matters?