Friday, October 23, 2015

Redefining Faith and Hope

I’ve been toying with a new definition of faith (among faith’s multi-faceted-ness).  Faith is believing that Christ did what he did and because He did what he did, we can trust in Him in all things.  Hope comes from faith, that the future will bend away from the natural order of things.  Hope in a resurrection goes against the natural order of things.  Hope that miracles are strategically placed in front of a wayward child to cause maximum probability is bending the natural order.  Our charity demonstrates our faith in Christ.  Charity requires faith because it declares that we believe and are willing to be meek.  Meekness is a state of egoless-ness or having cast off the natural man.  When one has charity one can’t be easily provoked.  We see the evil (slander, etc.) come our direction but see clearly that no response is the best response.  We see that the person dishing out the injustice is acting from an unconscious state and it means nothing about us.


This is what I am working on.  And it requires grace.  There is no way for me to get this down on my own.

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