I am convinced that God meant for faith to be the most basic elemental building block in every human life, as well as being the most complex meta-physical dynamic in the entire universe. The Bible says; "Faith is being sure of what you hope for, and certain of what you do not see." (Heb. 11:1). Oh...Now I get it....:-)
Here are some ideas that have helped me to begin to grasp some small part of my own, "faith walk".
1. Faith is trust. Faith is allowing our own cognitive understanding of a problem be superseded by our trust that God has a better plan, a better answer, a fuller understanding.
2. Faith is belief. Faith is a deep sense of belief that God's plans will prevail, even when we don't understand them.
3. Faith is knowing. There is always small "k" knowing and big "k" knowing. Small "k" are the things we know based on facts. Big "k" knowing is represented by the things we understand that is not based on facts. I know, for example, that my wife is at work right now and that she is alive. She is living and breathing. I do not have facts in front of me to support this, but I know it
4. Faith is a feeling. When we feel deep down that something is true, we can't explain it, but we intuit an understanding. My mother woke up the other day and just felt that her brother had passed away. She felt...capital "F" feeling. At that moment, the phone rang, her brother had just passed away, 5,000 miles from her.
Here is my latest out of the box idea....Faith is actually also a fight! Everything in this world has a tendency to pull our gaze, our focus or our heads downward. So, Faith is the daily fight that we engage in to hold our head up, despite the things that work to pull our gaze downwards.
Our faith as Christ followers isn't an etherial philosophical dynamic that stands alone...
*** Our Faith is in Jesus Christ. Literally, what we hold fast to in our lives is the idea that our Trust, our Belief, our Knowing, our Feeling, our Fight resides within the living reality of Jesus Christ. Inside of it...
So, as I was saying...faith is complex
All for now,
GB
Agreed. I am watching a program about quantum mechanics, and hear that physicists see a quantum mechanics experiment as probability waves. in other words, the experiment shows that particles express themselves in terms of all the possibilities of where they might go. they seem to go everywhere it is possible for just one particle to go. One particle therefore hits in an unlimited number of places. Perhaps they witness Gods mechanics. God sees everything as possible, therefore if you have faith in a certain possibility, such as a mountain being cast into the sea, that is possible. You get what you expect most. The bottom line for me is that man will never understand how God works. Mans wisdom is foolishness to him. I have witnessed faith in action and know God is real, and that we can truly do all things through him.
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