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Some might see faith as a crutch, but really we’re all living with a crutch of some sort. If you decide that you can fill the hole of loneliness with anything but the love and peace of God, you are in essence choosing a crutch to get yourself through this world. You have to ask yourself what good it does to spin your wheels on all these other things. I’ve never met a drug addict satisfied with his or her addiction. I’ve never met someone looking for love through sex completely satisfied. I’ve never met someone enduring abuse finding peace. Everyone on the planet is doing the best they can with what they’ve got. But if He is real, if God is who He claims to be in the Scriptures, if He is the God who claims to have formed me in my mother’s inmost womb, what do I have to lose? If you’re looking for significance in anything else, take a chance on a God who spun the planets into existence. Consider a God who hurled the stars into the sky. Consider a God who told the waves when to stop and the storms when to calm. He is the only One who can turn the pain of longing into satisfaction.