Never unrequited or inadequate.

When it comes to life there are a lot of things you need. You need your liver to get rid of toxins, you need your lungs to breathe, you need your heart to pump blood, and you need your spleen to do whatever a spleen does.

There are a lot of intricacies to the whole idea of living. It's actually quite remarkable how something so complicated comes to form something so...easy. Yes, living is easy. Living in a sinful world isn't easy, but the whole aspect of waking up alive is rather effortless. You don't have to keep telling your brain "inhale, heartbeat, heartbeat, exhale, inhale, heartbeat, heartbeat, exhale..." it just happens. The thought doesn't even cross your mind, in other words, you do it without thinking.

Think before you speak. Parents tell their kids that all the time. If I only listened to that, I wouldn't be digging myself out of so many painful conversations. But sometimes, I don't need to think, I just need to trust my instincts instead of calmly and rationally thinking things out. If someone asks me "hey, can I kill your dog?" I don't have to think about that, my answer is no, and that's all it ever will be. If my friend is hurting I'm not going to just sit back and watch her slowly die, without a doubt in mind, I'm going to be there for her, I going to try and get her help. I don't have to think about it at all.

A year ago, if someone asked me if I was willing to jump in front of a bus to save an innocent child, I would have to think about it. Could I die, to save someone else's life? Was I ready to die? Was my faith strong enough for me to know that without a doubt I was going to be with God afterward? No. But recently I have come across a revelation. Now my faith is strong enough. So, if you held a gun to my head, and said, "if you believe in God, I'm going to pull the trigger. Do you believe in God?" I will say, I don't just believe in God, I am saved by God, I am loved by God, and I am a child of God. Last year, I would have had to think about it. But now, it's like breathing. Obvious and effortless.