Let’s start off with some of the things God was doing early on to prepare me for this. It’s not a fluke that both my parents believed in the “One True God”. It’s not by chance that they dragged me to church every Sunday, Wednesday, youth event day, and potluck night. Do you think it’s a coincidence that I ended up in churches that preached the Bible? Was it just dumb-luck that the same church gave my dad a job and a place for his young family to live right next door?

Why did my parents make sure I spent more time in church than my siblings? Why didn’t any of my friends have this kind of church schedule? Why was I the only kid sent off to private Christian schools? Why did so much of what I learned stick in my head, when not much else did?

I should have been asking more questions back then. God gave me signs all over the place, but I didn’t see them for what they were. I saw them as inconveniences, roadblocks and unfair treatment. God wanted me to ask Him what was going on. Instead, I tried to figure it all out on my own. I doubt God would have made everything clear to me right away had I asked, but a lot of stupid stress could have been avoided. Don’t take as long as I did to learn that. Always ask, and keep your eyes and ears open for answers.

One of things God made stick from that little church in Phoenix was His creation story. I was sitting in Sunday School watching a video about God creating the heavens and the earth. It had awesome special effects; and I can still visualize it in my head today. I was filled with awe and wonder! I knew it was true, and I didn’t question it. That simple belief helped me answer so many questions and doubts I would later get in my head about who God is and what He can do. It helped me avoid all the false theories about how everything came to be as it is today.

Could I have defended my belief to someone else? Probably not very well, but that didn’t matter to me at the time. This is called child-like faith. I’m praying that at a minimum you all have this type of faith. Child-like faith means you believe God is real even when you don’t have all of the answers as to why you believe it. All new believers start this way. If God were to allow you to ingest everything about Him all at once your brain would explode. You wouldn’t retain it all. Instead, we all start like a baby does; needing milk before we hit the solid food, which is in God’s Word.

Now think about what would happen if all you did was live off milk and you never started eating bread or meat as you aged. You wouldn’t be very healthy, would you? You wouldn’t be very strong or mentally sharp either. In fact, you would be pretty useless. This analogy is the example the Bible gives for those who never take their faith to the next level. They stay in that milk only stage through life. They end up being weak Christians living in fear because of what they don’t know. They become almost useless to God.

The moment my life really started to change was when I got off the milk and dug into the meat. (The Bible) What kept me on milk so long? In short, distractions. (more on that later)

For now, let’s get you some milk and a little bread for the creation story. 🥛🍞