I've been a believer since I was a child, though I went through the prerequisite "I don't know if we can prove it" era as a teen.
I've struggled to maintain it, in both the face of my own personal life's horrors and the overwhelming despair of the world, but I find that if you've never had that struggle you don't truly believe.
James 1:2-4 NASB95 — Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
I've been a believer since I was a child, though I went through the prerequisite "I don't know if we can prove it" era as a teen.
I've struggled to maintain it, in both the face of my own personal life's horrors and the overwhelming despair of the world, but I find that if you've never had that struggle you don't truly believe.
James 1:2-4 NASB95 — Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.