Youth of the Nation reminiscence

Hey there, found this little memory when 'tubing. Okay so I am a little old to call myself a youth but dang I WAS one in 2001. Payable on Death still remains one of my favorite bands of all time. I think I'll toss Good Charlotte out the window now.

The bit about Johnny boy and his antics was soooo me pre-2001. Never one of the boys, broke all the rules and thought of suicide. Its true what they say though, nobody cared before, so why should they care after you've offed yourself? The only one that cared was God. Thank the Lord He knocked some sense into my thick ignoramus skull. Well, people still don't care, but who cares? All the people in the world worshiping at your feet is nothing compared to having the ear and the loving embrace of the Most High. So here's another P.O.D. fave, Alive.

The Child-like Faith

Many times we hear it: 'Have a child-like faith.' What exactly is it? How can we get it? The short answer is to open your heart to Christ and trust Him totally. To be innocent and believing in the One with all authority.

But is it all blind faith? To not question it at all? Surely not! Maybe you were one of those 'seen and never heard' kids, but as for me, I was as curious as a cat.

Mum and Dad were my figures of authority as a child and I believed they knew everything. So of course I would pester them with questions as random as where do flies come from or why dogs have many kinds of shapes but cats don't. Well, my poor parents did the best they could but after a while, they bought books to satiate my curiousity. That was before internet you see, so I had a mini encyclopedia library by the time I was 12.

While I did find out that my parents were not Omnicient (and good thing too!) somehow quietly in me I still wanted to discover someone who had the answers to everything. So look I did, and despite what they say about him, Einstein was just a man. Leonardo da Vinci was just a man and so was Newton. I can't decipher what Hawking wrote about but based on the fact that he wasn't able to make me understand his profound theories, he was just a man too.

The answer was so simple, God is the only one with all the answers. Yet for a great many years I could not see it. God was a concept of ancient times, this was what I believed. Then I asked myself, on what basis did I put my faith on such a notion? Isn't it not blind faith? The very thing mocked by the men of science? Something was not right here. You can't be practising one thing while condemning it at the same time!

The child-like curiousity and child-like faith go hand-in-hand. In fact, I wager that they are the same thing. Only when you trust someone would you ask that one to impart to you knowledge yes? You need to have faith that that person has the knowledge you want and the abilty to impart it to you. What good is a teacher if he can't teach? What good is a student if he does not trust his teacher?

What I am trying to say is: Don't take anything at face value. God is not random, so neither are His acts. Knowing the mind of God is a pursuit I am willing to extend my life for. In heaven we will know a whole lot more but somehow the chase is half the fun.