Do you
believe only what can be perceived with your five senses: sight, smell, hearing,
touch, and taste? Or, do you agree that some phenomena are beyond that kind of
categorization? Personally, I have experienced too many occurrences that defy
science to disregard faith.
It’s also
helpful to remember that today’s miracle is tomorrow’s science. Just because
something cannot be quantified doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist—or will exist:
- Jules Verne wrote about submarines years before they were fully conceived.
- The tricorders and communicators of the original Star Trek series remind us of today’s cell phones and tablets.
- People scoffed at the idea of invisible germs being the cause of illness and infection before antibiotics and anesthetics were invented.
“Now faith is the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
Believe for Rain During a Drought…Really?
In I Kings 18:
43-45, the prophet, Elijah, expects rain. He has his servant check
for signs of much-needed rain six
times. Each time, the servant goes to look towards the sea and finds nothing
but clear skies.
The servant
reports seeing a cloud the size of a man’s hand when he checks the sky a
seventh time. Elijah immediately sends word to King Ahab to go home before the
rains stop him. Ahab and Elijah barely
make it to Jezreel before the skies open up with rain.
Quotes about Faith
Of course,
there are many resources through which we can bolster our belief. In this blog
post, I would like to reference two articles:
“Faith is being willing to trust God—turning your hopes and problems
over to Him and trusting in His wisdom—and knowing that somehow everything will
turn out for the best. No matter how difficult or dark things become, there is
always a light.”—direct quote from the article itself
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“If you knew everything was
really all right, and that it has a happy ending, you wouldn’t feel
trepidations about your future.” Abraham-Hicks
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“As your faith is strengthened
you will find there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that
things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great
delight and benefit.”—Emmanuel Teney
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“Faith is a grand cathedral, with
divinely pictured windows—standing without, you can see no glory, not can you
imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of
unspeakable splendors”—Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Faith is taking the
first step even though you don’t see the whole staircase.”—Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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“Faith is to believe
what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”—St.
Augustine
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“Faith is an oasis in
the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”—Khalil Gibran
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“Faith consists in believing
when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”—Voltaire
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“Faithless is he that
says farewell when the road darkens.”—J.R.R. Tolkien
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“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and
one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything
whatsoever.”—Mahatma Ghandi
My Conclusion
Please see
more about belief against the odds in my book,
Accept No Trash Talk: Overcoming the Odds
How have you
kept the faith?
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