Faith

So this week I really studied faith and believing. I need to have more faith. Our zone leaders asked my companion and I to give a training on faith leading to miracles. I also studied faith with doubt, and faith preceding action. There are so many things we can do to build faith and yet so many things can tear it down.  The world is filled with ideas contradicting many points of church doctrine.  The church is doing better at countering these with the topic essays and other links.  However, for most active Latter-Day-Saints, it takes more than this for true conversion.  Without faith, we are not planted deep in this gospel, no matter how much we 'know'. 

Our ability to comprehend the "ways of the Lord" is inexplicably small.  We may have many unanswered questions amid all of the contention and chaos of life.  When we choose faith over doubt, we are blessed.  Faith is NOT present when we are stubborn and prideful and unwilling to admit we are wrong. Faith is NOT blind and it often requires diligent study and pondering on our part. Faith can be hard to explain to others. Faith is more than just kind of believing or thinking you know. Faith is obtained though the witness of the Holy Ghost.  Sadly too many people think that the witness of the Spirit testifying of truth to a humble soul is less powerful than a googled fact of the church's stance on (FILL IN YOUR BLANK).  Faith is the only antidote to doubt, and God made it that way on purpose.   

So there is my rant :)    

Love you all!  Jess