My first stab at this was to quote Webster’s dictionary. You can do that on your own and still not know what faith is.
I’ll tell you about my faith. I was raised in church so faith came natural…at first. As grew older and learned science and history and archeology, those Bible stories seem a little far-fetched. Seven days of creation, great floods, trips in whales and chariots of fire. The same things my child mind took by faith, my maturing mind questioned.
What is faith to me? Faith to me was a choice. I did not believe that the Earth just came to be. My heart told me there was something more. Crossroads. Decisions. I chose to believe. After all, any logical argument is based on the premise that our human minds are capable of understanding everything. That if we study and research we can explain it all. Primordial ooze and Big Bangs. But my faith is based on a Creator. God who created air and cells and gravity and black holes and atoms and ants and me. God who created these thing are not bound by them. God is not bound by time or gravity or the logic of His created beings.
Once I took God out of the box of what my limited mind could conceive, I was better able to see the evidence of God. Memories of people long gone. Forgetting of pain endured. Love that is not bound by reciprocity or rationality. Forgiveness of unthinkable horrors. Jewels that God leaves all over creation for our consumption and enjoyment: rainbows, flowers, birds, veins on leaves.
It’s a process. It did not happen overnight. I gave God my mustard seed of faith. Lord I don’t know everything about what I believe, but I believe. He showed me Himself in a thousand ways that I did not see before I choose to believe.
Will you give him your mustard seed of faith?
Bible references: Hebrews 11:1, Psalms 19:1, Romans 1:20, Matthew 19:14, Mark 9:24, 1 Corinthians 2:9, Job 11:7, Ephesians 4:6, Luke 17:6
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