How do I handle religion differences in my family?

Just be patient with them; they must be baby Christians and have forgotten that God will ultimately gather all of His own in due course. Just as you are free to believe what you do, God is free to do as He chooses.

In the same way, God is far more complex than we are, and we cannot understand him fully. If we read the book of the Isaiah in the Bible, we find these words in chapter 55, verses 8 and 9, spoken through Isaiah, who was a prophet:

“My thoughts are completely different from yours,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

This means that we can only glimpse a portion of what God is doing in our lives and in the lives of others. There is an inevitable gap in understanding.

I was a die-hard Atheist for years, but one day had my own ‘Road To Damascus’ experience. It was so dramatic that it transformed me inside and out. Almost everyone I knew plus my family became believers without my beating them over the head with anything. It was meant to be. He foreknew me. As it is written …

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

God also Forenew us…Romans 8:29- For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

I can promise you this; if God wants you- He’ll get you, maybe not today, but someday when you least expect it; He’ll just make Himself known to you and then you will have a bigger heart for other believers. You’ll understand that they witness because they love with a love that’s bigger than themselves, that not sharing the gospel truth is a crime against all that is holy and good.

Just be your self and help them understand why you believe what you do. God can take it. He loves a thinking man.