Following God

I've been thinking about the people I knew during my time as an associate pastor in a charismatic church.  

People who were friends. 

People I laughed with... cried with... worshiped with.  

People who believe what they are told to believe, unable or unwilling to question authority. People who live in fear, even though they say "anything that is not of faith is sin".  

Is fear faith?

Is worry faith? 

Is looking to the government rather than God, faith?  

I am angry with them....I don't understand them...I wonder what the F@^* is wrong with them... 

And I remember..I laughed with them...cried with them.... worshiped with them.

What is it that made us go in seemingly opposite directions?

All of us following God....