Faith is a big issue to me. It is the core of belief. Everything else doesn’t matter if your faith is not at the center of who you are. Faith drives you; it is an internal motivation from which your daily life springs from. Christians will say, “Even the Devil knows scripture.” This is true. Reading the bible is not going to give you faith, your faith is going to drive you to read it. Your faith is going to drive you to prayer. Your faith is going to drive you to hurting, feeling the weight of your sin so that you will repent from them. Faith will drive you to obedience to the Lord. My first pastor drew an analogy of God as an earthly father. When we are hurt, we can crawl up onto our father’s lap for comfort. His use of this was from a different concept, but I developed my belief from it as follows. God as an Earthly father. As a child, I may fear him and thus obey him. As a teen I become rebellious and disobedient. As an adult, I realize how right my father and his rules were ...