Confusion.

Matt & I had a religious talk last night, and like all these talks I get really emotional.  I try to listen to his side as well as what God is trying to tell me.  I have been studying my Bible this morning, and some things are becoming clear but it's still hard for me to just change my beliefs. I have been taught for the last 19 years in a Baptist church, and it's definitely hard to hear someone telling you that you're wrong and that's not what the Bible/God said.  It didn't turn into an argument but it did make me pray about and just pray that I find the right answers.


As of this morning, I feel like I'm getting somewhere; in some places.  Matt believes that there should be no instruments during worship, and I beg to differ.  1 Chronicles 13:8 states, "David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets". Psalms 92:1-3 also states, "It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp".  Although the Bible clearly states that people worshiped with instruments, it also has places where they just worshiped with voice.  However, this is minor compared to other things like, salvation, baptism, Lord's Supper, etc.  


I have been taught that there is no way to lose your salvation, and I have been a firm believer in that.  But, it seems as though I have missed a few places when God is speaking about salvation.  I'm not going to get into all of that yet because I haven't done enough studying.


I just pray, and for whoever is reading this I hope you pray, that this doesn't become a religious battle; that's not what I want.  God brings people in your life for many different reason and He brought Matt into my life for way more than one.  He brought him to me to show me what love is, for me to show him what love is, and for us to teach each other things.  My prayer is that after all of this, I figure out where I am supposed to be with God and I figure out what TRUTH is; and that's what God would want me to do in the first place.