What is Faith?

Well hey everyone. I know its been some time since I have been active on here with my blogs. I decided to get back into it again and try it. I have found a recent love for writing (because I am always talking things out loud to myself, when I could be writing about it) and what better way to start up again than on here. Weather anyone actually reads these or not, hahaha who cares. Here is another blog and this one is on Faith.

A lot of people including myself struggle with this word FAITH and the meaning behind the word. What does Faith mean to you? Take a few minutes think about it, then come back to this post…..see if your answer is similar to mine? We all have different opinions as to what faith is….so what is it to you?

By definition Faith is having complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Looking at faith in our every day lives we put a lot of faith and trust in material things and people. When we get into the car to go drive somewhere we are putting our faith and trust in the vehicle (that it will get us safely from point A to point B), as well as the other drivers (hoping no one hits you while you are out driving). At work we put our trust and faith in our colleagues or coworkers to help get the job(s) done. With the foods we eat. We have faith that the food we buy and cook is going to be nourishment for our bodies.

Okay so lets now look at Faith from a religious perspective. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Christian (like myself) who has Faith in God, a spiritualist that has faith in the universe, Satanist who has faith in Satan, a Buddhist who has faith in Buddha, or the Islamic, Arabic, Muslim people who have faith in Allah. Everyone has faith in something. However in this blog I am going to be touching to the one faith I know best, my own Christian faith. Maybe in the blogs to come I can touch on the other beliefs/faiths. I do not know enough about the other areas of faith as I could be or should be to be able to write about it properly with truth.

To me faith is hope and believing in the unseen. “Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it don’t exist.” I have Faith/Hope that one day when I am finally free of this world, I will be in a grand place filled with joy, laughter, peace, and God Himself. I have faith that one day I will be reunited with the one who created me, and be reunited with all my loved ones that have passed on before me. Some might ask why I have this kind of Faith, this kind of belief in something or someone I have never seen physically? Well here’s one answer, I may not have physically seen God, but I can feel His presence/His essence if you want to call it that. I am able to do this for two reasons; Reason 1, Through the Holy Spirit I have a spiritual connection with God. Reason 2, I am an empath. Not many people know what this is. An empath is someone who is able to literally feel and take on other poeple’s feelings as if they are experiencing those feelings themselves. So when the Holy Spirit is near I can Literally feel/sense His presence.

Back to the topic; Faith. A verse that has really stuck out to me is one that I had recently found in the past 6 months. This verse is Hebrews 11:1, “Faith is being sure of what we hope for. It is being certain of what we do not see.” I have struggled and struggled with my faith for years. A long time ago people would ask me; “how are you so strong in your faith? How do you maintain your faith and not falter?” Truth is guys, I was struggling so much and so hard with my faith at that time, but I put on a GOOD SHOW. I put on “The MASK OF LIFE”. Everyone has one at one point in their life. They put on the mask to hide everything so people don’t worry about them, So people don’t have to ask if they are alright, so people don’t have to feel sorry for them. I am in no way shape or form a perfect person, that includes my walk with Christ, and my faith. I have had my fair share of struggles that have made me question God and my Faith several times. But you know what it did in return? Ponder on that for a minute.

What going through the struggles did for me? (this is something that took me years to realize) Going through those struggles, questioning If God was real, If God ever heard my cries, If God ever heard my complaints, If God really made me, Did God really create everything out of nothing? All of these questions someone at one point in their life has asked these same questions….because of struggles that everyone has gone through. We think we have hit our lowest during these times because that is what we are made to believe by the one that comes to steal, kill, and destroy. In reality my faith has been made stronger through these struggles. YES! God is real, YES! God hears my (your) cries, YES! God hears my (your) complaints, YES God created everything out of nothingness. YES! YES! YES! GOD MADE ME (YOU)!

Psalm 40: 1-4; “(1) I was patient while I waited for the Lord. He turned to me and heard MY CRY FOR HELP. (2) I was sliding down into the pit of death, and he pulled me out. He brought me up out of the mud and dirt. He set my feet on a rock. He gave me a firm place to stand. (3) He gave me a new song to sing. It is a hymn of praise to our God. Many people what he has done and will worship him. They will put their trust in the LORD. (4) Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord. He doesn’t look to proud people for help, He doesn’t turn away to worship statues of gods.”

Faith is choosing to believe and choosing to have hope in something you can not see physically!