We know how important faith is, because we’ve known what it’s like for people to have faith in us. And we all have this faith, consciously or unconsciously. We’ve all given it, and we’ve all received it. We know what it is and how it works. Having faith in others, and others having faith in us, isn’t a sign of weakness or mental deficiency. It’s reasonable and logical.
And it’s also reasonable and logical for us to have faith in the promise of a person in whom is found all that there is to be found of God.
And this promise is that, amid the darkness of our lives, there will always be that critical pinprick of light that will take away our fear.
We’ll still have disappointment, and rejection. We’ll still have to face failure, possibly tragedy. Let’s hope not, but the darkness will still be there.
Faith in God won’t take away the darkness. But what faith in God will do is to free us from the fear that the darkness will destroy the value and meaning of our lives.
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John Shepherd–We all have faith, whether or not we recognise it
We know how important faith is, because we’ve known what it’s like for people to have faith in us. And we all have this faith, consciously or unconsciously. We’ve all given it, and we’ve all received it. We know what it is and how it works. Having faith in others, and others having faith in us, isn’t a sign of weakness or mental deficiency. It’s reasonable and logical.
And it’s also reasonable and logical for us to have faith in the promise of a person in whom is found all that there is to be found of God.
And this promise is that, amid the darkness of our lives, there will always be that critical pinprick of light that will take away our fear.
We’ll still have disappointment, and rejection. We’ll still have to face failure, possibly tragedy. Let’s hope not, but the darkness will still be there.
Faith in God won’t take away the darkness. But what faith in God will do is to free us from the fear that the darkness will destroy the value and meaning of our lives.
Read it all.