When you're raised as a Christian it is really easy to adopt someone else's personal faith as your own - without even knowing it! There comes a point where every individual has to encounter God for themselves and build their own relationship with Him.
So it's not that I 'faked' my Christianity, more that I never truly understood MY personal faith - what it meant to me, how it defined me, and how it brightened my future.
But now, having gone through a whole lot of life in the last 3 years...I read back on sermons/essays/etc and I'm reading it all in a whole new light.
'Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus' (Rom 8:1) now has true and personal meaning to me. When before, dare I say, it was perhaps just a Scripture that I KNEW was true...but didn't know it for myself - now, it is a profound truth that was and is utterly life-changing for me and completely fundamental!
Oh, how experience alters everything! In a good way!
I love that over time, you form your beliefs and your relationship grows and deepens. What a horrible thought that I would be the same spiritually as I was 2 years ago!
I look forward to looking back over my writings in 2 years and yet again being blessed to know that I have continued to grow and experience more of God!
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