A Fool's Blog

That's the plot twist most people never see coming. I’ve never been comfortable with religion. Honestly, it always felt like a lifelong game of pretend that adults take way too seriously. Different religions offer different answers to the biggest questions in life, and they can’t all be right at the same time. I don’t want “maybe,” “possibly,” or “just have faith because we said so.” I want truth. Real, solid, life-changing truth. I don’t want to wander through life in the dark while everyone shrugs and says, “Well, no one really knows.” You shouldn’t settle for that either. So, let’s get real simple about reality versus religion. There’s a difference - and it matters. Most of us grow up being trained to believe two things without even realizing it: first, that anything supernatural is unknowable; second, that if God exists, He’s mostly hiding from us. If you believe those two ideas, then the whole world feels like a guessing game and religion feels like blindly picking the “least...

Many people don’t realize that what’s written in the Bible didn’t come from people sitting around imagining God. Every word came from someone’s real, personal encounter with Him. The authors weren’t describing ideas. They were describing what they witnessed in the real presence of God . So, let’s get real simple about experiencing God. God is meant to be experienced! Not just understood. Not just agreed with intellectually. He invites us into something far deeper: a spiritual and even physical experience of His presence. When David wrote the Psalms, he wasn’t singing about how he felt about God from a distance. He was writing about what he actually experienced in the presence of the Almighty. His words came from real moments where God’s reality became David’s reality. Those experiences aren’t just for the few like David; they’re for all of us too. Consider the how the bible describes eternal life. “This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Chr...