What if you have doubts? What if faith isn't enough?

(This riff was a response to someone who posted in a faith group on Facebook, the question 

What if you have doubts? What if faith isn't enough?)

Of course you have doubts. Doubts in yourself, doubts about whether what you learned before is really enough, etc. And of course what you have learned up until now has just been enough to get you here. It may be enough to get you to the next step, but is not enough to get you to the one after. 

Growth is natural. Growth is necessary. 

Thinking faith isn't enough is misunderstanding faith. Faith in what you learned before is not faith. It's static belief. It doesn't save you. 

Faith is what moves you to face your doubts. Faith moves you to the next step. Faith got you this far, it is what carries you to the next step, and then to the one beyond, in one eternal round. 

Faith in what? 

Jesus' name means God is your friend (and mine, and everyone else's). Jesus name means we accept Him as our Christ -- as our anointed Savior. We accept His teaching, which is to believe that Father is not our enemy, and to keep learning to live a godly life, to the best we understand the attributes of God. 

Nothing doubting means doubting nothing that God teaches you.

This is the ultimate truth: Life is hard and then you die. It's supposed to be that way so that the imperfect you can be put in the watery grave and a better you can be reborn -- every day. 

(Not literal suicide, even if it feels like it sometimes, but sacrificing things that sometimes feel like they are more important than life, so you can learn they weren't really as important as you thought they were.)

If you let the hardness of life soften your heart and keep turning you towards God, that's what repentance is all about. Your conscience is your connection to your heavenly Father, and, to extent you understand your conscience and clear away the weeds that this world tries to plant around your conscience, that's how well you understand God. 

Focus your faith on Jesus Christ, and live the repentant life, and everything else either falls into place or falls away. The stuff that falls away is stuff you don't need, at least not right now. If you do need it, you'll come back to it later when you are more prepared.

You. We. Me. I was preaching to myself as much as to the person who posted the question. Maybe more to myself.