When was the last time you had your world shaken?

I remember when I first had my world shattered. It was two years ago, on a day off, I decided to put a documentary on Netflix. I wanted to spend my free time relaxing while still having the ability to learn something. The documentary film I had chosen was called Terra, and it was all about humanity’s relationship with the Earth and wildlife. I love David Attenborough, so it was nothing I hadn’t seen before. It opens up with a lady describing what’s happening in the world. She suddenly started talking about evolution, now this was not a new topic to me, but this time around something happened. I started having a tight feeling in my chest and got all panicky. I had a voice in my head telling me that my religion wasn’t real. To Quit while I was ahead.

Now for those who don’t know me, I am a Christian. I always have been, I was brought up in a Christian family and all that jazz. I had never really been away from Church and had always had this idealistic view of what the bible was and who God was. Now I’m not going to say that I was naive, but I had beliefs that had never been challenged.

So now, cut back to me sitting on my settee, tight chested, not knowing what to do, my whole faith and belief system crumbling. What a position to be in. In amongst all of this, this voice, intuition, inner conscience, whatever you want to call it, told me to chase this doubt, to face up to it and not swallow it down, because I knew it would come back angrier.

“The opposite of faith isn’t doubt, it’s when you have it all figured out”

So what happened was I chased it! I bought a book called the language of God (It’s a tough read, but worth it) I had tons of tough conversations and watched tough lectures. I came out of it a new person with a polished and hardened set of beliefs. I no longer had an understanding that was set on sand, but stone! If I hadn’t done it then there wouldn’t have been any progress in me. I had to fight for myself.

So fight for yourself, make yourself uncomfortable, get your views challenged and start to build your house on stone.

Now I don’t just mean in the big things of life, I’m talking about all things. The world we live in today can become one of uniformity, one of sameness, one that preaches individuality but shuns difference of opinion. So start to get a little cynical of yourself, start questioning your music taste and your movie taste! Read some stuff that’s different from what you normally do. Start to shape your worldview. It’s okay to live a little different. Start living out the truth in your life.

“You can tell a lot about someone’s character by how much truth they can take”

So that’s my thought for today… Start to shake your world a little, and see what falls out, and build on the things that cling.