Symptoms are misleading, when will you find the root cause?

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The title of this post says it all…”symptoms are misleading…”  Just like an iceberg, symptoms are what can be seen, but the root cause is still below the surface.  Before I gave my life over to Christ and became His child, I thought I was a Christian and was going to heaven when I died.  I truly believed I was His child and that all my poor decisions and negative reactions in life were just symptoms of what life threw at me daily.  Just because the symptoms were negative reactions and poor decisions, that did not mean I was not his child, right?  Wrong.  For me the symptoms that I diagnosed as “what life threw at me” were really a missing relationship with our Heavenly Father. 

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