Acting on faith!

 It's been an interesting journey though school so far. Yesterday I was in my philosophy class we got talking about how most things we think we know has no hard facts to it and is based on faith. After all how do we know something and most things is because somebody told us no matter if it was by written word or spoken word. You look at history and nobody ever met these historical people, nobody who lives now lived during the events from history so it's not a hard fact it's based on the words of the past which many times is an opinion and not unbiased so we can't know for sure. The knowledge that we have is on faith. Faith that the sources are true. 

The discussion got me thinking about the questions that were asked to form the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. How do we really know that Joseph went to the grove to ask God? How do we know that God appeared to Joseph? How do we know the book of Mormon is true? How do we even know that there's a God? How do we know that God loves us? How do we know that we are his child and as such he loves us? I never realized just how much we are a church of not only questions but of faith. It's our faith in God that will never fall even if everything else does. We need faith in order to live the gospel. We need faith in order to know things not only in the church but any knowledge requires faith. 

There's truly hardly anything that is 100 percent fact. Even our parentage there's no prove other than what our parents tell us. Then we exercise faith and trust in our parents to believe that they are our parents. Even DNA is not 100 percent fact, it's close to it but not a hard fact. So everything we think we know is based on faith. Yet we know that God is a hard fact and he knows everything. It's such comfort to know that I don't have to trust in what I have been told because I can ask God and he will reveal the truth to me. I never realized just how much of a comfort that really is until class yesterday. I have a feeling that I am going to be questioning things I never would have if not for this class. So I challenge you to ask God the questions you have and then exercise faith in God that he not only will lead you to answers but as he does your knowledge will increase. I can't wait to see the person I am after this semester because I have a feeling that I'm not going to be the same person and that makes me so excited for this journey to more revelation. An opportunity to increase my faith and trust in God.