FINDING FAITH - 1

What is faith?

Faith is confidence in something you can’t see or touch. It is knowing that something is there, even though you can’t see it.

We live in a world of scientific progress - how is it that we could have faith in an unseen intelligence that can guide us and work for us? Doesn’t that smack of the old world of superstition? Let's examine the issue.

The issue of faith breaks down into several questions:

• The first one is “Is there a God”
• The second one is “If there is a God, does that affect me?”
• And third, “If there is a God, and It affects me in some way, how does It affect me?”
• Finally, “If there’s a God, and It affects me, what should I be doing about it?”

The reason this is an issue faith is that most of us think we have never seen God. Most of us think we have never heard God. We are not sure if there’s anything there, and we don’t know if It affects us anyway. Do we even have an idea of who or what God is?

So what do we do about that? There are several approaches that people take:

• Some of us search high and low for God, and most don’t find anything. There is no office door with a “God” sign on it.
• And some people take the whole issue on faith, and with little or no evidence, we act as if God was there, and try to figure out what that means to us, and what we should do. These are people of blind faith.
• Some people reject the whole issue and refuse to believe in what they can’t see. These are the blind skeptics.
• Some of us ignore the whole issue, and get on with life. These are blind, period!

Which of these approaches is the right one? Would it surprise you if I said I think they are ALL missing the boat?

More next time...