Quote Originally Posted by Wedge
Well of coarse there is a "sunday school" slogan for all of life's problems. "Because Jesus' wants it to be." "Because it is in God's timing." The list goes on and on. The key is not always have an simple answer for every problem.

As far as your brother, all you can do is offer help. If you meet someone on the street and want him to raise his hands above their head, you could dance, sing, beg, pleed, cry, bribe, or do anything you can think of, but unless they want to do it, they won't. You can make anyone do anything they don't want to do.
I know. You are doing exactly what every person does when I ask about religion. I have been there for my brother and I know that he has to want to want it. The point is not really about my brother, it's about faith. I hjave faith that he will "want to" get off drugs. How long should I keep this faith if in 16 years my faith has done nothing obviously. I believe there is some type of God. I have faith in that. How long do I have to wait before I am struck by him? Before I feel as strongly about it as some people do? Before I don't just feel like the Bible is a good novel written many years ago?