thoughts on faith.

i read this on Madi's blog the other day:

"An unexamined faith is not worth having." 

Russell Hancock

i've thought about that a bit over the past few days. in my grandpa's Gospel Principles class today he taught about Exaltation. Exaltation is the ultimate goal, it is what we are here to work towards. being reunited and living with our Heavenly Father and Christ again.

grace by grace, bit by bit, line upon line, precept upon precept.

we learn how to reach that goal.

but of course we cannot reach a goal that we don't understand. and the more time we take to understand, experiment, examine the goal, the more we yearn for it. the more we live it. the more we live with an eternal perspective. the more we live in happiness, through our Savior. because he is the one, true way to true happiness.

continually examining our faith and beliefs, even our most basic beliefs, will help us see life as it comes better than with a halted faith that never grows. we will understand why bad things happen to us and to those we love, and we will understand why different people were put in our life at different times, and we will understand what we can do to better ourselves. and the good stuff, the good stuff means so much more, because we know that it is a blessing from our Heavenly Father, and we understand his love more deeply. we see life in a better way.

i hope someday i can have a faith like the brother of Jared. have a faith that i will never question.

i love insights like this. insights that i've learned before but every time i learn them it means more and i feel converted all over again.

Happy Sunday!