Have Faith

Faith from the secular point of view is associated with wishful thinking, fairytales, like Santa and the tooth fairy. Secularists would regard religion in the same category, at more times even have more faith in them than Christianity. Faith is not wishful thinking, God is not genie, nor an ATM, He's not a machine. From the theological point of view, Faith is believing on hearing God, its believing in the power of God, its believing in the will of God and His eternal plan. We all have Faith, but there is something about Faith that sets us apart as Christians and even as individuals. We might have Faith in the same thing but it would not be the same. We might even say and do the exact same things and our Faith would still differ. Faith is even more unique than our DNA, Jesus would say time and again "Your Faith ". And it was this faith that unlocked doors which were closed, closed those which were open. God did not demand much from us, just Faith. When they asked how big should it be, He responded by pointing out how small it should be. In essence they actually as discipline got the concept of Faith so wrong that they went the opposite direction and here is why. First of all, Faith didn't demand any power from the one who believes but derived it from the One Who's believed in. Read that very slowly if you will. It doesn't take anything out of me to believe that something can be done, but it does take something out of me when I show by action that something can be done, in order to illustrate, power needs to be used. I may believe that I will meet a certain lecturer in class, that person did not use thought but action. So I had Faith in them doing something, which took energy out of them to do. I don't lose any energy from giving the lecturer, but someone does and I had the faith in that person to do their job. So, essentially having Faith takes something out of whoever you had Faith in and the difference between you're lecturer and God is that she needs to rest every now and then, or he needs to update his information, she might be too selfish to share some stuff. God on the other hand never tires, never slumbers, He is always there, He has all the information there is and His power expenditure cannot be used up, burn out, overused or depleted. The biggest Faith we have, is a drop in the ocean on what God is truly capable off. The most absurd or unlikliest things which can imagine are even so limited that we cannot comprehend God's power even through our greatest imaginations. God tells the ocean where to stop, He give it borders, things we can believe in, are great in themselves but are so limited as the ocean to cross bounds of Deity possibilities. Even after our minds have been limited not to surpass angels, who also still fall short to comprehending the omnipresence of God. Faith draws from His omnipotence as Jesus put it "Father I know you can do all things". And Paul say "Who can do abundantly and above all that we could think or imagine". When you draw Faith from that which is limited, it eventually fades, tires or gets corrupt but when you draw from that which is eternal you keep drawing, and not matter how much more you need to draw its still sufficient. The only thing standing in God's power is us. We have been raised and indoctrinated with the beliefs that we need to keep our Faith within certain bounds. Faith can be kept in bounds, if the believer and the source are both limited, or if the believer is unlimited and the source is limited, or if the believer is limited and the scource is unlimited, the only perfect Faith is when both the believer and source are both unlimited. The latter can only be achieved by God and God alone, because no one knows God more than God. 🙈 stay with me please...so to have Faith in my limitation is impossible without God? The more God intervenes, the greater the faith I can have, here is how it works. Jesus relived on His Spirit to have Faith which was most perfectly bound with the Father. If I could say that again, Jesus was limited by being human. If Jesus was human like us, having Faith in an eternal being, His Faith would be limited by the element of the flesh. Basically, nothing in terms of Faith would set Him apart. I think that's clarified but we'll take a break and come back to this. Something mentioned earlier. Having Faith as someone who is limited means I limit the person most of the time using myself as a reference or my experience with people. But what builds Faith is trust, and trust is not manufactured, it's earned. Because of our trust issues, we usually take small steps to have Faith in others, those steps eventually leading to much bigger steps and even full blown Faith, unquestionable faith. There's people who we have so much faith in that we don't question them. If the person does something we believe they will succeed, we have Faith in certain football players, certain chess players, certain preachers, certain teachers, siblings, and ultimately we have no Faith in anyone more than ourselves. Even at times when we shouldn't have Faith in ourselves, like Peter when God told him he would deny Him and he didn't believe it. So back to Jesus, He had an element of limitation like us, so there has to be something or Someone who made a connection of an internal and eternal God. The Spirit of God, the Spirit of Yahweh, Parakletos, Melchishalom, Melchizedek, Yahweh Ruach, The Comforter.... He knows what happens in the eternal by virtue of His omnipresence, He knows what Faith Elohim wants you to have. He draws you eve closer and closer to that Faith, perfect Faith which is impossible yet significant. God earns out trust, by doing little things for us on a daily basis, very now and then has does something big. Of note whether what He does is big or small depends on our perception not His. While I could need a tractor to move a rock, and a finger to shift a grain, that's not how it works when you're all powerful. I will need more power to move the rock than the grain, but God uses the same power for both. God needs the same power to move a mountain as He did when she said "Let there be light". That was eternal faith. Now here and now, when God does something it has nothing to with itself but with Himself. It's not about the object its about God, and this is where we keep missing the point. He gets that we think its a big thing, but He wants us to know "is there anything too difficult for God?"⚓