(October 24, 2015)
Once
again we see a reminder of the central fact that faith does not come from
miracles. Having gone through a crisis
of faith myself, I can attest to that fact.
I have been blessed, in my life, to have seen (and participated) in
things that can only be described as miraculous. And, yet, when I found myself struggling with
my faith (as a consequence of my own poor choices), these miracles were not
sufficient to grant me faith.
Even
when, intellectually, I understood that the miracles that I had seen were not
possibly consistent with a reductive materialistic view of the world, I managed
to work myself into a point where I doubted everything. It wasn’t the miracles that brought me out of
this dark place (and it truly is dark – I pity everyone living life without a
testimony of the Savior, having been in that place myself), but rather it was a
choice. When I chose to believe, then
the things which even in my darkest times I understood intellectually grew and
developed into something that amounted to genuine faith.
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