God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.

Believing doesn’t make God real. Unbelief doesn’t make Him disappear. Your opinion doesn’t change reality.

I considered myself a Christian. But looking back on it, I guess I was more of a Kluggist. I was klugging my own spirituality. It was years before I would find out how dangerous that was.

It is an historical fact that you and I have a problem doing the right thing, for others and for ourselves. Yet, we deny it fiercely or wallow in shame, neither of which God wants for us.