🛡️Faith is like a Shield🛡️
Faith is like a shield. A shield made up by our past with God. We bring up the past to remember that “God was with us” so that we may repeat, with our current faith, “God is with us”. Even whilst being in the dark, while the arrows of lies, worries, and doubts rain down upon us.
We hold to the truth of God’s love in our lives, wherever we are on this journey filled with mountains, valleys, flat plains, and deserts.
I use the word “God” tentatively. I know many evil things has been done in God’s name. A person’s experience of “God” depends on those whom they have crossed paths in their journeys on this earth. Many lies and truth have been attached to God. Alas, truth is easily lost, and no one has a monopoly on God.
But God is truth. And the truth leads one to true freedom. Freedom to love. Freedom from the unnecessary pain caused by one’s own sins. Freedom to forgive others in a world that continues to hurt one’s soul in this strange world.
A piece of faith is to remember when The Goodness (~God) has touched you in your life. Remembering is a piece of our humanity, our collective story.
For if I lost my memory tonight, I would lose my faith.
I will need to start over again. To fashion a new shield.
I know I am pushing a progressive theology here. I am participating in the progressive theology that is killing the church. But it is only a theology. A theology subject to change. Because when truth presents itself to shape this theology I have (I avoid the use of “my” in hopes of remaining detached from my theology), why would I not take it? For with truth comes freedom.
And who doesn’t want more freedom?
That Heaven may touch Earth. Echoes of eternity and the absolute freedom it will afford.