WHAT IS FAITH ANYWAY?
What is “faith” anyway? It’s something you can’t see with the naked eye. It’s something you can’t touch with your fingers. It’s not something you can join hands with and take home for the holidays in physical form, or realistically hug to you when you need a teddy bear for comfort. So what is this elusive thing called faith?
I believe you either have faith in a higher power or you don’t! It’s that simple. Having faith in healing the body, believing in miracles, and the power of God to transform your life through goodness and grace isn’t beyond our realm of understanding and reality. Having faith in a powerful Father/God-like figure requires we believe in possibilities and energies beyond our scope of actuality and reality. We have to accept something we can’t actually see or touch, but something ever present and powerful residing within the Universe of Time and Space. (An actual energy presence of God.)
I believe “faith” is an unconditional loving presence of possible and potential realities. We can all experience faith as an extension of everyday reality and be in the actual energy presence of God. Spiritual energy is real. Therefore, “faith” must be real.
Healing the soul of a lost or transgressed human requires the unconditional faith of both the giver and the receiver of spiritual energy before God’s energy can enter into the transforming equation. A sincere moment of . . . “faith in time” . . . a merging between a “trio” of spiritual energies . . . with unconditional love and faith as the overall basis of the formula. Then, I believe, the formula of “seeking a reality of God’s presence through faith” can and will transform you. An actual transformation of the physical can occur. The soul or heart of a “faith-filled” seeker can be redeemed, healed, forgiven, and transformed. I believe it takes both a giver and receiver having reality-based faith in God, along with a total acceptance of God’s existence (or a higher power) before the formula can actually work. It’s not a complex formula, but it requires a total acceptance in the abstract of “faith” to become an actual reality of mind and soul.
August 9th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Do you believe that faith is a source of power or that the power of God acts only in response to faith?
August 10th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Hi Chris, I believe that faith in a higher power or unconditional love is about as close as we can get as humans to the energies of the ‘One God’ source. I also believe that other sources of so called “powers” are available to humans as well. Energy is . . . after all . . . energy. Both negative and positive energies are available powerful sources which can and do influence us on a daily basis. As molecules of human energy, we are receptors of those various powers and energies. Free will and a personal choice in God, seems to me, to be the dividing line separating the negative influences from the positive. “We are what we choose to be” and the energies of the vast universes of time and space along with our fellow human beings are available to accomodate us with those choices in energies (or) powers. Jaye