Faith has been my amazing path of learning in the arms of God.

He has shown me that even as I thought I had faith, I was struggling. Time has turned me upside down, knocked me left then right, and all over again and then tipped me upside down. My faith has grown, many, many tears, and prayers later, and I am still amazed at what I have learnt and how my faith has grown.

God is good and very often misunderstood by the masses. He is accused of so many wrongs. He is blamed for the mistakes, greed and foolishness of mankind. God’s Word is turned over in the sinful minds and changed, rearranged, dumped, and rehashed as something far from the meaning of love and sacrifice as it was meant to be shown as. Poor God. My heart sometimes just cries to God when I read of His words and work being turned towards some persons or churches personal agenda that has nothing to do with lifting God up high so that the world knows that He is there for us to recognize and love and allow Him to guide us and love us too, and all the more tenderly and He cries to do so.

What hearts do we have if we do not cry alongside of God for His lost sheep. He went through so much suffering, still does as anyone who loves His flock and they go through a harsh rough life.

My faith is still growing in leaps and bounds and there is much that this simple man can do now that he couldn’t do before. I felt much pain but along with it courage I did gain, and with courage faith, and more faith – it grows as we grow if we allow ourself to grow in His arms.

We can turn back to the ways of mankind but can we really ever be the same. Look around at yourself, life and existence and see that it cannot be as it is without a plan, and a divine plan at that.

I cannot go back. That would kill me now, mentally I would die to go back to the world’s ways. The ways of the world hurt so bad, are so very painful and sad, and there is nothing to have faith in but coincidences and good luck and they are no certainties, they are no safety rope to hold onto in times of need.

In the arms of a ever loving God, just as I would hold my wife tenderly and my children. That is where God is. To turn it away is a true sad thing to witness. All hearts cry to be filled with God’s tender loving Fatherly love.

– James M Sandbrook.
First Published – 2nd of September, 2011.
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