Growing in Faith: Embrace Your Faith as You Did as a Child

When I was in high school, my favorite band was Jars of Clay. Now, I don't tend to choose a favorite band solely by music, though it is important that I like their music. However, I loved Jars of Clay because they got it that Christianity wasn't looking at life through rose-colored glasses. Life wasn't all sunshine and roses. Life could be hard and depressing and people could still have faith in God.

Now, that being said, they have the song "Faith Like A Child." This is, of course, a reference to the passage in Matthew 18 that says, "At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, 'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, 'Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea.'"

The reason that this came to mind with two questions and an act stand from a stand up routine is because of what they asked.

The two questions asked were "Is God a human?" and "Could you call God a gentleman?"

I answered those questions saying that God was a spirit and that we run into problems when we try to explain and define God, though I had more in my answer than that.

Then, the stand up act is the "Phone Call With God" by Ellen DeGeneres. It's funny and I do like it. Yet, don't we all ask those questions?

As I've gotten older, I tend to mull over more and more of these questions in my head. Thankfully they really have only helped me have a stronger faith.

However, they can be quite confusing.

Just last night my mind wandered back to a question that my sister asked awhile ago - "Why did God create mosquitos?"

One answer that came to mind was that vaccines didn't always exist, so how were we to be vaccinated at the time?