The Risk and Reward of Faith in God

So one prompting that stayed with me from that time is Gerard saying, "No faith, no risk" or "No risk, no fear." And I realized, I asked myself, so what am I risking? Because faith always is risky. When you turn away from the world in the faith that God is in your heart, the mind will tell you that you're missing out on life. You're missing out on opportunity. You could end up becoming a nobody. Nobody knows who you are. You have no money in your bank. Nothing to call yours. You have spent your whole life chasing this made-up idea of spirituality; therefore, chasing the spirit, chasing the heart.

So if I was to ask that if you could spend your entire life without being in the light of spirit, or you could spend your entire life just having no fulfillment of your worldly desires—how do we choose? Whole life without the light of spirit or whole life without the fulfillment of worldly desire? So I'm going to hold you to that answer, all of you, because we have to live like that. I'm not saying you're not living like that, but it gives us a good steering wheel as to how to steer our life. And the beauty is that in the light of spirit, it doesn't have to be that your worldly life is your worst-case scenario. It could be, and that's why it's a risk. They're not taking away the riskiness from it.