Faith is substance and faith is evidence.
(my random thoughts)
Faith is a difficult concept to grasp especially in a world that has lost the meaning of it. In our world today we want facts. We want evidence and we want to see proof. If we can not see it with our naked eye or have scientific facts then what is being presented is false and untrue or irrelevant.
What a tragedy….
When we loose sight of the unseen we will become delusional in the seen. When we loose sight of the realness or the presence of those things that are unseen we will become deceived and ignorant in the seen.
I have came across people who believe that there is no such thing as God or faith. They believe that we just “happened” with out an intelligent designer. They build there framework off of a foundation solely on the seen and ignoring the seen that built it. What is ironic about this is that Both believers and non believers have some sense of faith on the unseen…
For instance
Everyone has faith that they will breath their next breath without thinking about it. Majority of our population don’t even give a second thought on where their air is going to come from. But yet they have faith on something unseen…
What about mail? Many people who receive packages or letters have faith that their package is going to come due to the integral statements of the carrier.
Everyone from the heathen to the saved rely on faith…
The Bible says that faith is the “substance” of things a person is “hoping” for and the only “evidence” of things not seen.
When we think of substance we think of something that is tangible. Something I can feel and touch. Something I can see and hold.
Can substance be more than that?
You can feel love but can you hold it? Not the results of love like a hug, a kiss etc, but can you hold the conceptual stages of love (which is unseen)?
Can you with your hands contain or limit air? Can you naturally right now go outside and hold air and restrain all of it? (which is also unseen)
Both of these things and many others are all unseen substances that are evident in our lives today. If we can have faith in love, faith in air and faith in the frameworks of other intangible things then why do we lack “faith” in God?
God is (period)
Someone of great intelligence and supreme abilities created this framework called earth. If you believe other wise then you are liken to a fool without any sense. Even those that are dumb, blind, and lame can still sense that there is someone greater than them. Look outside. Look at the animals and the tress. Look at the human race. Look at your hands your feet, your arms and your eyes. Think about the building blocks that make you from your nervous system to your cardiovascular system. Your digestive to your respiratory? Who designed these things?
Since He said let there be; whatever was be still is TODAY…
Everything that was created is still perfect only being occupied by beings that are imperfect.
The sun still obeys and brings forth light during the day
The moon still obeys and brings forth light for the night
Seeds still bring forth fruits
The earth since the beginning of time still spins on the same access
Everything (without imperfect tampering) still operates perfectly…
My question to you is do you Have “faith” in Him?
Does your life provide a substance that says you hope for Him? Does your life provide evidence that you long for Him that is unseen? Because in Him is everything we desire. Those that delight themselves in the Lord He will give them the desires of their heart… not just any desires… when you delight in Him you want what he wants. You desire solely what he desires nothing more and nothing less… the Bible says in Him we LIVE MOVE and HAVE OUR BEING… it is in Him already that we do everything… we cant live without Him, we cant move with out Him and we can not “be” without him and some of us have the audacity to say HE doesn’t EXIST!!!
If he never lived then how could we live?
If he never lived then how could we move?
If he never lived then how could we be?
When we have faith in something unseen they (people outside) consider us to be fools or people consumed with fantasy. We are people who understand that the unseen dictates what is seen . We understand that their has to be and intelligent designer that built this framework. We understand that if we, in our finite abilities, can build extravagant buildings and paint mind-blowing
masterpiece’s then someone far greater than us designed and created us…
Today don’t waiver in your faith but rather embrace it because when you do you will be embracing HIM….
