Before you read this post, I just want to put out a disclaimer: My thoughts in here are scattered, but I’ll try to bring it all together somehow. It’s been an incredibly long time since I last wrote, so here goes:
As I opened my bible this morning, I came across Ephesians 4. While I have read this chapter so many times, it always speaks into a different area of my life each time I read. I hope that this will speak to you as well. I really like the Message version of this passage (I usually read from NIV) so I will lay it out here: In light of all of this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the master, I want you to get out there and walk-better yet, run! on the road God called you to travel. I was pretty amazed at this paraphrase and through it I felt God directly speaking to me. Over the past six months I’ve felt like a paralytic, spiritually. I was coming to God as a beggar and not approaching him as his child. I didn’t believe that he had the power to rescue me from the pit I had dug for myself and I wanted him so desperately to rescue me at the same time. I know that God is speaking this verse into my life because it has been confirmed through many conversations I’ve had lately with friends. By far the biggest barrier to my spiritual growth has been lack of faith. Instead of having faith in Jesus and taking up my mat and walking, my unbelief kept me down. Another point to be made about this verse is that God wants us to start taking steps of faith! Granted, we must be empowered by the holy spirit and abiding in him, BUT at some point we have to get moving. One of my friends put it really well the other day. She said: we can’t be babies crawling around forever, we have to get up and walk! That my friends, is what I am encouraging you to do today. Get up and walk that road God has set you on. Yes it’s hard and painful at times, but he has given us everything we need to live godly lives and to push through. if you belong to Jesus, he works all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). As a side note, I have been LOVING Bethany Dillon’s music lately. Her lyrics really communicate the heart of God and speak into this season of my life. This song entitled “Get up and Walk” (coincidence? I think not) really inspired me today. I hope that you will get some encouragement from this today if you are reading! God Bless !
Here’s the link to the song 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjwYTjLFck
Hey again. XD Reading this i seems that you really are looking for guidance and a path in life. Both those articles kinda speak to it.
First post of your spoke how you should not “fill in the space” that god gives you. TBH, you got to think of god like a GPS in your car, your going down a path and then the GPS (god) was like take a left back there but you kept going straight. Then the GPS says “recalculating directions” and the GPS then saws to take this new direction which will still lead you to the goal. If you ever veer off course, god will always direct you to the ultimate goal as long as you don’t “turn off the GPS” It’s okay to you know…”fill in the space” its okay to make mistakes, its how you learn, if we never made a mistake we would all still live in caves…
Like i said to you earlier, Walk the path of god, but that doesn’t mean don’t interact and doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, god will help correct them if we are willing.
Now to the faith thing…I’m not much help, for i do not know you or your umm… “human condition” (meaning your experiences in life that make who you are) But for me and my Faith…well i don’t even call it faith or belief. I don’t have faith in god, or believe in god, I KNOW. Its weird but i don’t have faith that there is a god out there, i know there is one. I don’t believe in god, i know him, not eve a matter of trust that god will help me, i know he will. Its hard to make the jump from faith/belief/trust to Knowing. I don’t know a better word for it yet….but when i know it i will share it. =) My Knowing of god comes from my learning of him, not only from the christian/catholic religion, but from many many others, like Buddhism, Muslim, Those Jewish people, Taoism, Wiccan(even), Scientology etc. I don’t even know all these yet, thus for i do not know god fully, who he is. I believe that all religion is based on the same god. Its a long story. But that’s life, learning and a journey, and remember the best way to learn, live, and journey is with someone. =)
Never let your faith bring you down, only lift your spirits more and want to learn. -Brandon
(btw, sorry for writing so much, i can be kinda lame sometimes or rant on when it comes to religion. **shrug**)
I know this is a LONG time coming, but I appreciate your honesty Brandon. Thanks for posting!